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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 previously co-founded and served as Chief Technology Officer of IMVU. He is the co-author of several books including The Black Art of Java Game Programming (Waite Group Press, 1996). Eric, love the blog.

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Mentoring the mentors: Advice and inspiration for startup mentors

siliconflorist.com

Last year around the time PIE was starting, David Cohen , cofounder of TechStars , shared the TechStars Mentor Manifesto. 6) Advise as if you were an employee. Personally, I take this from the vantage of an employee or consultant advising his or her superiors. Technical Support -- Key Accounts Manager. Technical Writer.

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Why Startups Die

The Next Web

Andrew is the co-founder and CTO of Parse.ly , a technology startup that provides big data insights to the web’s best publishers. In 2007, Paul Graham gave a variety of causes for startup death in How Not To Die. I have witnessed startup failures that were due to predictable co-founder conflicts.

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How to pick a co-founder

venturehacks.com

SUPPORTED BY Products Archives @venturehacks Books AngelList About RSS How to pick a co-founder by Naval Ravikant on November 12th, 2009 Update : Also see our 40-minute interview on this topic. Picking a co-founder is your most important decision. One founder companies can work, against the odds (hello, Mark Zuckerberg).

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The Future of Web Startups

www.paulgraham.com

October 2007 (This essay is derived from a keynote at FOWA in October 2007.) In the last batch of startups we funded, we had several founders who said theyd thought of applying before, but werent sure and got jobs instead. We could hire employees, but we want to be forced to figure out how to scale investing.

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