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Finding a Technical Cofounder

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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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8 Ways The Maker Movement Turns Ideas Into Businesses

Startup Professionals Musings

This movement, coupled with free websites and apps, makes it possible for almost any technical person to start a business. In my view as an advisor to new ventures, the Maker Movement is an integral part of a new age of the entrepreneur. Provides networking with cofounders and strategic partners.

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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? ) Because of IMVUs reputation, Ive also had the opportunity to serve as an advisor or board member for more than a dozen startups. Lean Startup Wiki - including a complete list of local meetups and meetup organizers.

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Startup Tools

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Github - Free public repositories, collaborator management, issue tracking, wikis, downloads, code review, graphs Pivotal Tracker – Agile project management tool that enables real time collaboration. Blogs (VC): Antonio Rodriguez [link] – A very technical VC at Matrix partners who can actually code.

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Why Startups Fail - 20 Top Reasons Gleaned from 32 Startup Failure Post-Mortems

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Discord with a cofounder was one of the most fatal issues for a company. Bricabox cofounder advises, “When a co-founder walks out of a company — as was the case for me — you’ve already been dealt a heavy blow. One of the main reasons BricaBox failed was because it was solving a technical problem. 3 – Not the right team.

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Lessons Learned: Built to learn

Startup Lessons Learned

My cofounders and I would hash out nuances and details almost every day, re-drawing diagram after diagram on the whiteboard. MeganMurray : "Behind every technical problem is a human problem. leanstartup #w2e (via @blader ) Amen mcavalcanti : #w2e #leanstartup every technical problem is a usually a human problem.

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Lean Startup fbFund wrap-up

Startup Lessons Learned

Ive been there: is it me or my cofounder thats crazy? Lean Startup Wiki - including a complete list of local meetups and meetup organizers. But it can also be used for evil - to convince people to abandon their senses and work on something that nobody will ever want. How can we tell the difference? What if its both of you?

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