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Finding a Technical Cofounder for Your Startup

SoCal CTO

I've recently received several emails from people looking for a technical cofounder for their startup. "I'm looking for a partner / cofounder who can not only head the technical aspects and build a working model of the site, but someone with the connections to put a great development team together when we need it.

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Hiring Developers Before Product/Market Fit?

SoCal CTO

Using my StartupRoar as a radar, I came across a great post by Gabriel Weinberg Do you really need a full-time hire for that? Hiring seems to be the preferred use of seed funds (by investors and founders), whereas I'd prefer a focus on customer acquisition. In other words, they come in asking for help with sourcing and hiring.

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How to find a technical cofounder

ryanwaggoner.com

Home About Me My Work Hire Me Contact Subscribe How to find a technical cofounder 09.10.10 Posted in Development , Entrepreneurship , Posts , Technology by Ryan W. When I was doing freelance development, I had about one pitch per week for an equity-only opportunity. illegitimi non carborundum.

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Why Founders Should Know How to Code

Steve Blank

My contract developers building the app aren’t very responsive. neither you nor your cofounder can code and you’re building a mobile app? And that he could identify the resources needed, (outsourced contract developers who could build it for him) and he would hire a partner to do so. I said, “Help me understand.

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Finding Good Developers in Los Angeles?

SoCal CTO

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Saturday, February 17, 2007 Finding Good Developers in Los Angeles? Im part of a CTO group that meets once a month to discuss various topics. About 18 months ago, the entire group began to mention that they were having more difficulty finding good developers.

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The Trouble With Non-tech Cofounders | TechCrunch

techcrunch.com

The Trouble With Non-tech Cofounders. I want to reflect on my experience as a non-technical founder and reassess my original decision – almost two years ago – to stick to what I’m good at, and not waste time learning to code. guest author. Thursday, February 23rd, 2012.

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Twitter Link Roundup #155 – Small Business, Social Media, Design, Copywriting, Marketing And More

crowdSPRING Blog

Stop looking for cofounders and help them find you instead | The Startup Toolkit Blog - [link]. Don’t roadblock – Make it dead-simple for your advisor to help you | QUIBB - [link]. HomeAway Co-Founder: Why I Hire Failures – [link]. 35 Beautiful Unusual Web Designs - [link]. Entrepreneurshit.