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8 Steps To Starting A New Venture With Limited Funds

Startup Professionals Musings

Even the homework is easier, with free and mobile access through the Internet to more business assistance sources, opportunity data, investors, and competitor details around the world. Advisors and investors need to see your whole story in as few as ten slides. Prepare a pitch deck to document and share your plan.

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Finding a Technical Cofounder

bizthoughts.mikelee.org

BizThoughts Thoughts about business, technology, the web & entrepreneurship About Booklist Contact Nov 15 2011 Finding a Technical Cofounder By Mike Lee Categories: Entrepreneurship , Leadership Since I have a technical background, I get about one offer a month to join some engineering team, or to be a technical cofounder.

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Why Online Video Just Took One More Big Step to Legitimacy

Both Sides of the Table

Another major hire was Ryan Lissack who joined as CTO. Ryan was not only a senior engineer at Salesforce.com (he ran mobile and also ran content management) but was also my cofounder at Koral and lead architect at BuildOnline. Ynon started as shareholder, board member & advisor and switches to full-time executive.

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Innovation and Geography

SoCal CTO

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Tuesday, February 20, 2007 Innovation and Geography I ran across a post in Read/Write Web - Does Location Matter in Web Innovation? eHarmongy) as an acting CTO. My only other complaint is that right now its very hard to find good technical people at all levels.

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The Trouble With Non-tech Cofounders | TechCrunch

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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. Enterprise. CrunchBase. Hot topics. Editor’s Picks. Disrupt NYC. guest author.

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Why it is hard for VCs to say ‘no’ and why that ‘no’ could be good news for an entrepreneur

The Next Web

We receive about one business plan a day, and the Silicon Valley VCs at least 10 times more, so I am pretty sure we face a similar issue: too many business plans, too little time to respond. Yes, it is true that some entrepreneurs either don’t receive a response or get a pre-made template.

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Startup Grind Turns the Tables on Mark Suster

Both Sides of the Table

And we had these vans and mobile kegs in the back, and we would go to golf courses. It was all technical. She was paid much more than me and no matter how technical I was, they saw me as the business guy because I graduated with a degree in economics. So it was from ’91 to ’94 that I programmed.

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