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My Advice To Entrepreneurs: Consider Canada For Your Startup

YoungUpstarts

By Raj Narayanaswamy, cofounder and Co-CEO, Replicon. For aspiring entrepreneurs, it’s hard to resist the allure of Silicon Valley. You’d be forgiven for thinking that any budding entrepreneur should only look at setting up in Silicon Valley to be successful. Software Development Incentives Speak for Themselves.

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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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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. in Computer Science.

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20 Best Biographies For Tech-Minded Students

YoungUpstarts

” Chances are good that now, more than ever before, the stories of the men and women who paved the way for today’s technology, and the people who are now exploiting those works in new and fascinating ways, will appeal to more than just students who are early adopters. It’s an excellent story of a complex man.

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SuperMac War Story 10: The Video Spigot « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

Present at the Creation It was early 1991 and Apple’s software development team was hard at work on QuickTime , the first multimedia framework for a computer. So SuperMac engineering also developed video compression software, called Cinepak. The software was idiot proof. There was nothing for the consumer to do.

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Startup Grind Turns the Tables on Mark Suster

Both Sides of the Table

” We talked about my influences as a younger person and what got me started in technology and entrepreneurship. Before you think I was a complete nerd, in addition to making money selling software, which I did at 15, 16 years old, I also made money throwing keg parties. It was all technical. I had this path to choose.

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Timing: When to raise seed funding.

Scalable Startup

There are several great examples of technology startups that do this. At this stage you’re essentially selling yourself and your cofounders. Pre-launch funding is pretty common in Silicon Valley, but that’s a unique case. PreCog Security, a company I am currently helping to build as cofounder, is taking this approach.