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Lessons Learned: About the author

Startup Lessons Learned

Maybe youd like to start with The lean startup , How to listen to customers , or What does a startup CTO actually do? ) He serves on the advisory board of a number of technology startups, and has worked as a consultant to a number of startups, companies, and venture capital firms. October 13, 2008 6:47 PM Luke G said.

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How Much Equity a Technical Cofounder Should Get - Nathan Hurst's Blog

blog.nahurst.com

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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Should You Co-Found Your Company With a Software Development Shop (2 of 2)?

David Teten

I’ve seen a range of options for supporting entrepreneurs, which I can rank from least to most involvement in companies by investors: financier VCs, e.g., Correlation Ventures. portfolio operator VCs, e.g., Andreessen Horowitz, ff Venture Capital, First Round Capital, Google Ventures. mentor VCs, e.g., most VCs.

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Smart Bear Live 8: Edwin from MeetingKing.com

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

You have your general management meeting and in your general management meeting you talk about product development, about marketing and about finance. So again, none of this is me trying to say what you should do for product development, in fact, or what you should write in code in fact. For venture capital, right?

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The Ultimate Inventor’s Guide to Inventing Things

Up and Running

Boris Wertz, founding partner of Version One Ventures, believes that if you’ve worked in an industry you’re passionate about for a long time, you may know something about the market that nobody else knows. If You Want Venture Capital, You Need It. He calls this “the secret of the market.”. Do you know a specific market’s secret?

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From Nothing To Something. How To Get There.

techcrunch.com

The timing is perfect, there is more than a little overlap with Vivek Wadhwa’s guest post on venture capital earlier today. Post launch, if you gain traction, is where the business person will help take the load off of the technical folks. Second, like I said, forget everything else and just get your product out the door.

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Support Your Fellow Entrepreneurs, Vote in SXSW 2020 Panel Pickers!

Austin Startup

Venture Associate at Capital Factory Emily Reiser , PhD., Cofounder and Director at Courier Therapeutics Kedar Karkare , PhD., FAKING IT IN TECH SXSW Conference | Track: Tech Industry & Enterprise Speakers: Maryann Alspaugh, Programs Manager at Capital Factory The Pitch: How did it get here?