mashable.com

MAY 28, 2010

How do you find that perfect Twitter handle or that ideal epithet for your blog, website or startup — one that’s snappy and memorable, and that you won’t hate by next year? 3) Check the social network username site www.knowem.com to see who else is using something similar. I have a couple of points and resources to add.

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rob.by

MARCH 8, 2012

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. Twelve months into my startup journey I had four half-built websites that had been built by my four ex-technical co-founders. Tuesday, August 17, 2010.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 19, 2017

This April, one startup is going to get their chance! We’ll fly five of them to Austin for an epic pitch-off resulting in one of them receiving $100,000 in seed funding and a year of free access to Capital Factory’s coworking facility and mentor network. for the second year in a row.

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Transformify

APRIL 15, 2016

Having a great idea is just the beginning, the execution, network, funding and the support are key. The venture aims to empower young people with the knowledge, resources and necessary network that will enable them to start, run and grow a business. Mbwana Alliy Founder and Managing Partner at Savannah Fund.

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Kenya Africa Incubator Cofounder 45

Rob Go

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

So without further delay: Large Tech Meetups: Web Innovators Group : Quarterly Demo-Style meetup in Cambridge draws over 1000 members of the startup community each time. Online Resources and Newsletters: Bostinno : Great coverage of local startup happenings with a growing network of local writers. HBS Startup Tribe.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 17, 2017

The goal of this sponsorship was to build a network of partners that can help Walmart innovate and deliver tangible results. Working with partners who understand this can help accomplish this goal more rapidly. This was the first time Walmart has ever provided complimentary drinks at an event, so it was a big deal!

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www.geekwire.com

JULY 10, 2012

Startup Resources. Posts Comments Startups. STARTUP SPOTLIGHT. You are here: Home / Startups / Bad returns be damned: Venture capital fundraising jumps 31 percent in U.S. million of what partners hope will be a much larger fund. But Seattle entrepreneur Aaron Roberts, a former engineer… Read More.

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Rob Go

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

Large Tech Meetups: Web Innovators Group : Quarterly Demo-Style meetup in Cambridge draws over 1000 members of the startup community each time. Bostinnovation : Great coverage of local startup happenings with a growing network of local writers. HBS Startup Tribe. MassChallenge - Startup competition and accelerator.

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Boston Technical Review Community CTO Hire 56

socialmatchbox.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

If you post up an ad to an online job board asking for someone to join your very high risk early stage startup company the odds of getting someone who decent are slim to none. For starters, you have to get inside the head of a programmer who might want to work for your startup.

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blog.captainrecruiter.com

MARCH 8, 2012

Two years ago I got the bug to do an online recruiting startup and I began the hunt to find a technical co-founder - a software engineer who works for no cash - to help me build my dream website. Twelve months into my startup journey I had four half-built websites that had been built by my four ex-technical co-founders.

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bizthoughts.mikelee.org

MARCH 8, 2012

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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www.reincubate.com

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

Share this: chief technical officer chief technology officer cto interim cto job description start-up startup cto web cto Weve been swapping some thoughts with Daniel Kehoe , a consulting CTO acquaintance of ours from across the pond. Ensure staff, partners, customers, and board understand the business technological vision.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 7, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Sunday, September 7, 2008 Customer Development Engineering Yesterday, I had the opportunity to guest lecture again in Steve Blank s entrepreneurship class at the Berkeley-Columbia executive MBA program. Can this methodology be used for startups that are not exclusively about software?

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mashable.com

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

Brett Miller is the president of Custom Software by Preston (CSP). For more than 10 years CSP has impressed clients with highly effective software solutions and teams of multi-talented software engineers. I'd approached Advanced Millennium Technologies, to develop our ERP software, last September.

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SoCal CTO

JULY 23, 2012

I received a great question via LinkedIn: I'm the founding engineer and working hard to launch my startup. I've previously addressed the role of a CTO in early-stages in my post Startup CTO or Developer. What do we need to do to make sure we can survive technical due diligence by investors and partners?

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Seeing Both Sides

APRIL 28, 2011

CNN recently reported that 40% of the 130,000 job openings in Silicon Valley are for software engineers. Typically, when a young company gets financing and begins to hire, they seek to leverage the network of the founding team and their investors. This network provides some valuable leads and perhaps a few hires.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 21, 2017

Sales Account Manager for a leading NYC based StartUp. With a wealth of financial knowledge, I took a risk and became the CFO of a clean tech startup and eventually moved to San Francisco where my entire high end wardrobe became obsolete. You’re abandoned by partners you once relied upon. Thanks to Steve Benson, Badger Maps ! #4

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David Teten

JANUARY 21, 2021

(co-written with Jamie Finney, Founding Partner at Greater Colorado Venture Fund. Jonathan Bragdon , CEO, describes Capacity as “a team of founders-turned-funders making non-dilutive, founder-aligned investments of $50-$300k in post-startup, post-revenue businesses planning to 2X revenues in 12-24 months. —– Indie.vc

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The Next Web

AUGUST 19, 2013

Mikita Mikado is a software engineer and entrepreneur from Belarus, now based in San Francisco. Sales are the bloodstream for most businesses, and tech startups are no exception. However, figuring out the way your startup should make money could be challenging, especially for us left­-brained founders.

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Austin Startup

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

Capital Factory’s Saturday Startup Spotlight series returns this week with the Founder and CEO of ROBOAMP : Roberto Inetti. My name is Roberto Inetti, I’m a software engineer and I’ve been coding since I was seven years old. As a startup founder, what challenges are you facing as you navigate the entrepreneurial world?

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The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 24, 2019

Speakers and partners of Samsung, AT&T, Verizon, and other world-leading companies came up with the services and products which will support the new technology and are to be released in 2019. Certainly, it’ll be the high speed of connection, but actually, it’s the 5th Generation of mobile network. Key Features of 5G to Be Aware Of.

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VC Cafe

JUNE 29, 2012

My head is still spinning from the past 3 days, which have been incredibly packed with events, information and networking. If you’re smart and work in the right space and just not give up, you shouldn’t take a weekend idea and make it into the startup. Because a startup is a 5-10 year commitment. 99% is not enough.

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Developer Silicon Valley Software Review Mexico 103

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 17, 2009

It you have a great software engineer that’s awesome. If you can’t find somebody any technical resources at all through networking please consider keeping your day job. I’m not being flippant (OK, maybe slightly) but seriously it isn’t hard to network your way into someone technical.

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Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 19, 2010

One of our software engineers wrote all the code. He did a nice job of synthesizing the requirements, wrestling Oracle for the PC to the ground (on a Novell network), and getting all the PL/SQL stuff working. If you are a CEO of a startup, do you know who the full-stack programmer on your team is?

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Rob Go

SEPTEMBER 3, 2012

Large Tech Meetups: Web Innovators Group : Quarterly Demo-Style meetup in Cambridge draws over 1000 members of the startup community each time. Online Resources and Newsletters: Bostinno : Great coverage of local startup happenings with a growing network of local writers. HBS Startup Tribe. The Grand-daddy. Harvard iLab.

Boston 72

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David Teten

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

By contrast, as a venture capitalist, I can report that almost all of our portfolio companies are desperate to hire talented software engineers, and eager to hire in a range of other roles. As the former CEO of an Israeli startup with a (modest) US and UK presence, this is an obvious way to create more jobs here.

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blog.launchbit.com

MARCH 8, 2012

We didnt put strict specifications on what "technical" means, but the general idea was people who may qualify as a technical cofounder of an internet/tech startup and in particular, those who have been pitched ideas before. Have a validated idea that has a high probability of success for everyone in the startup. Be realistic.

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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. Execution is what matters, and in most web startups that falls on the technical founder. I love programming, board games, and my wife. Basically, its because ideas arent worth much.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 29, 2020

20:09) How Radu knew the site had hit product-market fit (22:07) Radu talks about the three times he's hit product-market fit with startups (23:09) Radu on making the first cinemagraph-making app in the app store. (24:44) 29:15) Skills in demand, including design, software engineers, and people to vet volunteers and projects. (32:23)

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Austin Startup

OCTOBER 6, 2018

As I mentioned at the beginning of this series/ebook, over the years I’ve noticed that I tend to frequently share certain Lucky7 posts with entrepreneurs we’ve backed , team members at data.world, or other startup investors I know. where I am now a Venture Partner?—?in investors, employees, clients, and partners.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 26, 2020

We're a technology company headquartered in Fresno, California, and together with the Kapor Center in Oakland have partnered to deliver Onward US, which is an initiative to put thousands of Americans back to work. I had no network on the West coast. Jake Soberal : Hi, my name is Jake Soberal. And I lived in rural California.

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www.quora.com

JANUARY 16, 2011

Find Questions, Topics and People Add Question Add Question Non-Technical Co-Founders Co-Founders Technical Co-founders Finding Co-Founders Startups & "How Important Are Ideas?" " Web Development Startups Solo Founders I am a creative guy with a startup idea. "I am a creative guy with a startup idea."

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mashable.com

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

Mashable Mashable reached out to angels, seed stage investors and VC firm partners and asked them to share their wisdom with the rest of us. Here’s an overview: Mitch Kapor: Kapor is founding partner of Kapor Capital , a firm that invests in seed and early stage startups. and Path Intelligence.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2018

He’s a former Dell exec that worked on their startup team with Ingrid Vandervelt, a Capital Factory mentor, and the co-founder of DivInc, Austin’s pre-accelerator program for diverse founders, which is hosted at Capital Factory. Stephen is a Capital Factory Mentor, serial entrepreneur and former General Partner at Austin Ventures.

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Technical Cofounder Cofounder Fractional CTO CTO 48

blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

They write everything from assembly to jQuery, on PCs to mobile phones, doing hard core computer graphics to high level social networking. Big things, like obscuring the networking stack under so many countless layers of abstraction that it’s virtually impossible to even imagine what bytes are actually going over the wire.

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Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 16, 2015

If you are a software engineer, you probably get this instinctively. My entire world functions as a large and wide distributed network. Our reach, network, visibility, and impact has grown significantly since 2007. There are two common ways to scale a system – horizontally or vertically.

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 15, 2017

I have been working with my Partners since November 2000. I also realized that having your own business is a great way to gain new networks. I started my PR and marketing firm since I love startups and want to give them a chance to grow. Thanks to Emily Mazza, Mazza Virtual Assistants ! #7- Photo Credit: Steven Randall.

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