YoungUpstarts

MARCH 14, 2017

by Eliot Burdett, co-founder and CEO of Peak Sales Recruiting , and author of “ Sales Recruiting 2.0: How to Find Top Performing Sales People, Fast “ Diversity in the workplace has been an issue since the civil war. For example, Anheuser Busch struggled to penetrate the Hispanic market until they acquired InBev.

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rob.by

MARCH 8, 2012

Finding Technical Cofounders Is Hard. Yesterday, Michael Pope posted an article titled Technical Cofounders Are a Myth. He argued that software engineers don’t finish what they start, and that you’re better off paying a technical person than partnering with one. Tuesday, August 17, 2010.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 13, 2015

Thus I was happy to see a recent book, “ The Tech Entrepreneur’s Survival Guide ,” by Bernd Schoner, PhD, and cofounder of ThingMagic, which leans heavily on the people side of the equation. You need to have a technical genius on the team to get your startup product off the ground. The sales professional. The trusted leader.

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ryanwaggoner.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Home About Me My Work Hire Me Contact Subscribe How to find a technical cofounder 09.10.10 These “startups&# are almost always mostly-non-technical founders offering 1-2% premoney for a “lead developer&# position. illegitimi non carborundum. Posted in Development , Entrepreneurship , Posts , Technology by Ryan W.

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www.virtuosimedia.com

MARCH 8, 2012

Home ▶ Businesses ▶ Startup Business Advice ▶ Current Page How To Find A Technical Cofounder For Your Online Business Idea. This article should also serve as a starting guide for programmers who are approached about becoming technical co-founders. Accounting. Copywriting Tips. General Business. Social Media.

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Hunter Walker

DECEMBER 13, 2020

Sales is just storytelling with a desired outcome at the end of the story. Can your lack of interest or skill in “selling” be counter-balanced by a cofounder or team that’s great at it? Can your lack of interest or skill in “selling” be counter-balanced by a cofounder or team that’s great at it? Yes and No.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 3, 2014

neither you nor your cofounder can code and you’re building a mobile app? I offered that if Dave wanted to be the founding CEO then he was going to have to do two things: first, create a reality distortion field large enough to attract a technical co-founder. My contract developers building the app aren’t very responsive. The Problem.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 18, 2012

Once the answer is found, the entrepreneur needs to do serious research on the market he/she will be addressing. Product/Market Fit. To me, the Market is the most important followed closely by the Team who can execute, navigate and conquer that market. Startups in this category start off in their home markets (i.e.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 12, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Monday, March 12, 2007 MyShape Article - Analyst Misses the Point The NY Times did a piece today on MyShape, a start-up in Pasadena - Log in Your Measurements, and the Clothes May Fit. He has twenty years’ experience as a CTO. Early Stage Marketing and Branding – Farida Fotouh.

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techcrunch.com

MARCH 8, 2012

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. If you still don’t know what product/market fit is, and why it matters, please read up on it.

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Steve Blank

JULY 7, 2015

He later co-founded and served as CTO of IMVU and then authored The Lean Startup. Named one of BusinessWeek’s Best Young Entrepreneurs of Tech, Eric served as a venture advisor at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers before moving on to advise startups and venture capital firms independently. 500 Fastest Growing Private Companies.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 29, 2011

They also over-invest in solo founders and founding teams without technical cofounders despite indicators that show that these teams have a much lower probability of success. more likely to successfully scale with sales driven startups than with product centric startups. Technical-heavy founding teams are 3.3x

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Steve Blank

MAY 29, 2011

They also over-invest in solo founders and founding teams without technical cofounders despite indicators that show that these teams have a much lower probability of success. more likely to successfully scale with sales driven startups than with product centric startups. Technical-heavy founding teams are 3.3x

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 3, 2015

by Eliot Burdett, co-founder and CEO of Peak Sales Recruiting. Fears over technology stealing sales jobs is nothing new, it happened following the advent of both the phone and Internet. Job Forecast Study ranks sales jobs as the number one job employers are currently looking to fill, ranking 10% higher than technical positions.

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SiliconHills

JULY 30, 2012

And solo-entrepreneurs can find it difficult finding a technical cofounder in central Texas where people with technical skills are in high demand. Other startup founders are looking for partners with different skills such as marketing, sales and business development. [.].

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 28, 2021

As we wrote previously : Back to those (early) days when Marketing Automation was just born, the world was web-centric. With marketing and analytics becoming increasingly complex, businesses need to know how to track and manage their data, and they need to know what to do with it. Michael Katz the cofounder and CEO of mParticle.

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The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 7, 2013

Vik Singh is CEO and cofounder of Infer , which recently raised a $10 million Series A round from Redpoint Ventures and provides data-powered applications to companies like Box, Jive, Nitro, Tableau, and Zendesk. . There’s friction in companies, and so the sales cycles are long. You are the sales.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JULY 4, 2011

This guest-post is from Joannes Vermorel, founder of Lokad which produces sales forecasts for off-line companies. As a result, the pitch was less than useful, and the sales team appeared clueless. A client with a technical question our billing, unsure of the proper contact, decided to separately email sales@ , support@ and billing@.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 23, 2014

Consider these statistics : Just 2 percent of sales occur during first meetings. In my book, I tell the story of a salesperson who did extensive research on each sales lead she got. Do you kick your sales pitch up a notch to your hard sell? Maybe you’re using too much technical jargon. Her reasoning?

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 6, 2019

You are looking for cofounders that can help you build a product. You have finally found a cofounder that can take care of the startup. Market Research. In this stage, you will also search the market to check if your idea is viable. If there is a gap in the market, there will be demand. Next is marketing.

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David Teten

JANUARY 19, 2021

Our categorization is not a technical one. This structure allows for alignment on the front end, and real-time flexibility for performance metrics,” says Samira Salman , a family office investor and advisor. . The value ascribed by subsequent investors (in a secondary); buyers (acquisition); or the public markets (IPO).

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

OCTOBER 7, 2012

The company has done $400k in sales in less than two years and had an early test deal with a local supermarket chain that they were massively overperforming on. At this point, the very pregnant cofounder was weeping. Daymond offered to be an advisor. He had been at it for 6 months and had no sales or distribution lined up yet.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 14, 2017

Written by Chad Hall, Cofounder + CEO at RemodelMate , a humble ventures company that intends to disrupt the home improvement industry by setting the standard for residential renovations and transforming the buying experience for customers as well as the way that contractors attract customers and sell their services. Close sales?

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blog.launchbit.com

MARCH 8, 2012

cofounders. technical cofounder. Why you can(t) recruit a technical cofounder. We know, however, that at some point, especially if you yourself are not technically-savvy, there will be a time where getting some technical expertise on the team is essential to continue progressing. Viewed times.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 10, 2017

We offer investors venture economics with public market liquidity. Before graduating, I decided to forgo the finance path and instead dove into engineering and later sales and product management roles at VersaSuite (health IT) in Austin. Our Story The two of us met at NYU almost 10 years ago. We were infatuated with tech. Factom, Inc.

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Up and Running

JANUARY 21, 2015

Interestingly, Urban Outfitters still reported third quarter sales of 47 million dollars, one million less than the total money raised on #GivingTuesday this year. Urban Outfitters, which also owns Anthropologie, Free People, and Terrain is no stranger to controversy. Tinder delivers a million dollars worth of sexism.

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 15, 2014

In 2002, I met Libba and Gifford Pinchot, cofounders of Bainbridge Graduate Institute , at a retreat. Part lifestyle choice, part time management, part promotion and marketing, and part entrepreneurship, the book advocates minimizing the time invested in traditional jobs. Here’s how to calculate break-even point in sales.”.

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 10, 2013

Two more entrepreneurial ventures later, Gleb cofounded online backup provider Backblaze to help consumers affordably, automatically, and safely back up their data. What are the pros and cons of starting a business alone versus with cofounders? The required number of cofounders for success is: “Zero” – You don’t need a cofounder.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 6, 2021

Fight the urge do more things, to attract more customers in a broader market. In reality, too many choices actually dilutes customer interest in your existing market, and makes your job of production, marketing, and support much more complex. The company has since gone public, and is still a market leader.

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Tim Keane

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

" We all have heard/repeated the investment mantra about "big, growing markets" with "unfair advantage IP" position. Growth generated by market demand and sales can be very complex.  If the market demand ramps quickly enough there isn't enough time to consider much else.

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blog.nahurst.com

JULY 19, 2010

Nathan Hursts Blog Thoughts on Software, Technology, and Startups « Back to blog Im on the technical side of entrepreneurship in NYC. The graphic below balances the risks cofounders take with their relative contributions to help answer this question. I love programming, board games, and my wife. This doesnt have to be the case.

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Hearpreneur

JULY 30, 2016

trillion in sales. I am a session singer and producer, and I wish clients and peers would give me more of an opportunity to work in the technical side of the business (such as mixing and editing). Share A census in 2012 found that 36% of all businesses were owned by women – a number which has steadily increased.

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www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Sales & Marketing | Wednesdays. Advisor. ); STARTUP. SALES & MARKETING. Online Marketing. Bringing Innovation to Market. a 50-employee provider of e-marketing solutions to small and midsize businesses, based in Needham, Mass. Get and keep customers with affordable online marketing tools.

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Steve Blank

MAY 11, 2009

The Cinepak codec was written by the engineer who would become my cofounder at Rocket Science Games.) This is the first way to get video into a computer, we’re going to sell and market this board like there’s no tomorrow. That’s every marketeers excuse for putting their kids in an ad.) We knew something our CEO didn’t.

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mashable.com

JUNE 8, 2010

The mailing list works in two ways: Every two weeks the 10 most interesting listings are e-mailed to more than 40,000 startups on the “Help a Startup Out Digest” listserv, and every week the best technical listings are sent to the “Hackers Digest” listserv. Because there’s a fee to post jobs and resumes, there’s not much spam.

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thenetsetter.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Are you inventing new technical solutions to a problem? If you use a piggy-back services like those mentioned above, you are simply being shielded from the technical requirements of the web by another company. In other words you are outsourcing the technical aspects of your startup. But it sure does seem to help!

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clicksend.wordpress.com

OCTOBER 26, 2010

The number two thing is lack of a technical co-founder. Partner with a Programmer After they have their big idea, most non-technical founders set forth to find an engineer to form a partnership. The fact is the technical co-founder will be doing more work at the start. The number one thing holding back new startups is funding.

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