rob.by

MARCH 8, 2012

Finding Technical Cofounders Is Hard. Yesterday, Michael Pope posted an article titled Technical Cofounders Are a Myth. He begins by explaining how he arrived at his conclusion: 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.

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The Equity Kicker

SEPTEMBER 5, 2014

To be clear I’m a big believer in the power of teams, but we’ve had some success here backing solo-founders and then helping them find a co-founder shortly after that. Having had some success we are looking to rinse and repeat, and that has led us to think about the whole co-founder question in more detail.

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www.cscyphers.com

MARCH 8, 2012

Tutorial Day At #RailsConf » Why Trying To Find A Technical Co-Founder Will Almost Always Fail. 13, 2011 13:30 in Startups. Last night, I went to a local “find a co-founder” meetup for RE. What It Takes To Recruit A Technical Co-Founder. Passing On Founder’s Institute.

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Cofounder Technical Review Founder Software Review 40

The Next Web

DECEMBER 17, 2013

Stef Lewandowski , co-founder of Makeshift.io, which has launched apps attending.io , hiremyfriend.io domain also references “input/output”, something that Courtney Boyd Myers , founder of audience.io Cofounder of Greenhouse.io says founder Kellee Khalil. “These new.io and wrangler.io , says, “.io io” as well.

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View from Seed

APRIL 21, 2015

On the heels of our research on HBS entrepreneurs , NextView’s Dimitri Dadiomov (HBS ’15) interviewed several top founders on the early stages of their companies. Matt Prince , Co-Founder and CEO, CloudFlare (Web performance and security to protect and accelerate websites; $72.1

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Austin Startup

OCTOBER 7, 2020

she / her) - Senior Vice President, Global Technology and Innovation - Greater Austin Chamber of Commerce | LinkedIn Will Young - CEO & Co-founder - Sana Benefits | LinkedIn Andrea L. Thomaz - co-Founder, CEO - Diligent Robotics, Inc. Hurt - CEO and Co-founder - data.world | LinkedIn Dana M.

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Austin Cofounder Texas Houston 68

techcrunch.com

MARCH 8, 2012

The Trouble With Non-tech Cofounders. This is a guest post by Scott Allison, CEO and founder of Teamly.com. I want to reflect on my experience as a non-technical founder and reassess my original decision – almost two years ago – to stick to what I’m good at, and not waste time learning to code. 2011 Holiday.

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Technical Cofounder Cofounder San Antonio Europe 49

fi.co

DECEMBER 4, 2012

Founder Feedback. Why a 50/50 Split is Almost Never Right for Co-Founders by @DaveParkerSEA. Founder Feedback gives you insights from the startup trenches. Applications to the Seattle Founder Institute are also due this Sunday, February 26th: click here to apply. . -->. -->. -->. Blog. Posted by Jonathan Greechan.

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The Startup Magazine

JUNE 26, 2023

medical marketplace since 2011, has announced its industry expansion. TUALATIN, OR, JUNE 22, 2023— International Medical Lasers  (IML), a medical industry leader in sourcing the world’s highest quality surgical devices for the U.S.

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Leadership Technical Review Global Cofounder 121

Steve Blank

JULY 7, 2015

Jon Sebastiani , founder and CEO of KRAVE Jerky , a company that got its start in my class at Berkeley back in 2011 and was recently acquired by Hershey. Eric Ries co-founded Catalyst Recruiting while attending Yale, and continued his entrepreneurial career as a Senior Software Engineer at There.com. Taking My Class.

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Lean Technical Cofounder Silicon Valley Channel 120

Feld Thoughts

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

After signing the lease, Samir suggested that they could have saved a lot of money by using a co-working space but once the decision was made and the lease signed, there was no turning back. While the cash is gone, the “expense” is “depreciated” over several years (depending on the type of asset).

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Balance Sheet Fractional CTO Burn Rate Salary 125

The Startup Magazine

MARCH 2, 2023

By Danielle Ofek Before I was a banker, I was a founder. My journey over the last decade founding and leading startups has been a successful one, but it has also come with challenges, many of which are shared by other women founders and entrepreneurs. The numbers begin to tell the story. to 2.7%, averaging roughly 2% year over year.

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Founder Affiliate Cofounder Boston 112

www.virtuosimedia.com

MARCH 8, 2012

Home ▶ Businesses ▶ Startup Business Advice ▶ Current Page How To Find A Technical Cofounder For Your Online Business Idea. This article should also serve as a starting guide for programmers who are approached about becoming technical co-founders. Before You Pitch To A Technical Cofounder.

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Technical Cofounder Cofounder Technical Review NDA 41

thebarefootvc

DECEMBER 16, 2011

But even more exciting is when I see inflection points of adoption — which is why 2011 was a particularly exhilirating year for me. What We Saw in 2011…. The list of applications to engage, empower and organize citizens continues to grow, and will be one of the most defining legacies of 2011.

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Technical Review India Mobile Hockey Stick 110

Altgate

DECEMBER 15, 2010

@altgate Startups, Venture Capital & Everything In Between Skip to content Home Furqan Nazeeri (fn@altgate.com) ← No one wants to tell you your baby is ugly More on Liquidation Preferences → Pre-Money Valuation vs Number of Founders Posted on December 15, 2010 by admin Here’s a chart of the day worth sharing.

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Agile VC

DECEMBER 13, 2011

December 13, 2011. I looked at this founder’s prior startup, which ultimately had a successful exit, and then was happy to connect with him again as he launches a new project. I co-founded NextView Ventures , a seed-stage VC firm based in Boston, in 2010. © 2011 GenuineVC - All rights reserved. Author howerl.

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Seed Stage Silicon Valley Cofounder Technical Review 185

David Teten

MAY 20, 2016

As one of the lead engineers at ff Venture Capital , I spend most of my day building custom software solutions that enhance our firm’s process–tools that range from portfolio investment management to co-investor and cap table tracking and more. We posted on our site a more in-depth overview of ff’s Tech Platform.

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Private Equity Equity Cap Table Venture Capital 113

www.startuplessonslearned.com

MAY 4, 2012

Founders Dilemmas: Equity Splits. The following is an excerpt from HBS Professor Noam Wasserman’s new book, The Founders Dilemmas: Anticipating and Avoiding the Pitfalls That Can Sink a Startup. On average, the founders who keep the most control over their company make the least amount of money. Lessons Learned.

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SiliconHills

JULY 6, 2013

A few years ago, Bart Bohn co-founded Ravel, a big data analytics firm. Before that Bohn served as director of wireless and information technology at the Austin Technology Incubator from 2007 to 2011. The post Spotlight on Bart Bohn, co-founder of AuManil in Austin appeared first on SiliconHills. He’s been [.]

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Cofounder Austin Founder Incubator 126

YoungUpstarts

JUNE 20, 2019

by Everett Harper, CEO and cofounder of Truss. Everett Harper is the CEO and cofounder of Truss , which builds software and infrastructure to help companies scale and modernize digital services. Founder Labs in 2011, Everett pitched an idea to make calendars more useful for executive assistants. At Women 2.0

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Technical Cofounder Burn Rate Seed Stage Cofounder 113

YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 31, 2011

But what is really interesting this year is the accompanying Apps World Asia 2011 , where there are specific tracks applicable to developers and programmers working in the web and mobile application spaces. Young Upstarts is a Social Media World Forum (SMWF) Asia and Apps World Asia 2011 media partner. Rise of the Apps.

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Asia Singapore Application Development Social Media 196

View from Seed

MAY 31, 2023

For example, a 2009 study conducted by Paul Gompers and David Scharfstein, “Performance Persistence in Entrepreneurship”, found that failed founders have the same chances of success¹ as novice founders, but prior success does increase the odds of future success. I reached out to a dozen founders using the criteria of: 1.

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Silicon Valley Cofounder Term Sheet Founder 156

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

I was generously rewarded the Intuit Founders Award in 2011 for helping get it started. The genesis of Unstructured Time was how I met my co-author Jeff Zias, who proved to be an instrumental thought leader and the key driver to getting employees excited about the new program.

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Incubator Cofounder Green Programming 121

Agile VC

APRIL 17, 2011

April 17, 2011. GameFly filed in 2010 and remains in registration, though 2011 has seen a positive start for VC-backed IPOs with 14 in Q1 2011. GameFly filed in 2010 and remains in registration, though 2011 has seen a positive start for VC-backed IPOs with 14 in Q1 2011. Quinstreet priced at $15.00/sh

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Pre-Money Valuation Liquidation Preference Dividend Common Stock 113

Up and Running

APRIL 18, 2014

“I realized in the early 1990s that there was no appropriate yoga for fitness professionals,” says YogaFit® founder, Beth Shaw. says HourlyNerd co-founder and co-CEO, Rob Biederman. “So Before starting OwnerListens in 2011, I spoke with over 100 business owners across ?the Feed a need. Crowdsource.

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Detroit Technical Review Cofounder North America 156

Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 11, 2022

Husband and wife co-founders, Todd and Laure Fisher founded CallTrackingMetrics in 2011 in their basement and together have grown it into an Inc. My guests today are Todd and Laure Fisher, their husband and wife co-founders of Call Tracking Metrics company. Marketing Podcast with Todd and Laure Fisher.

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Metrics Marketing Software Review Cofounder 85

YoungUpstarts

JUNE 15, 2015

by Andrea Martins, co-founder of GreenSocks. He may have been named by Silicon Valley thought leader Paul Graham as one of the five most interesting startup founders since 1979, but Sam’s curious penchant for wearing t-shirts over long-sleeve shirts suggests that he’s definitely too young for me. Lecture 3: Before The Startup.

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Cofounder Delaware Startup Technical Review 100

Rob Go

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

Founder Dialogues : Eric Paley plays talk show host on this recurring fireside chat style event with Boston area founders. The next one is TechProm , organized by Dave Balter, the founder of BzzAgent. OnStartups: One of the largest online startup communities founded by HubSpot founder Dharmesh Shah. University Resources.

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Boston Technical Review Community CTO Hire 56

SiliconHills

MARCH 17, 2019

By LAURA LOREK, Publisher of Silicon Hills News In 2011, Joseph Lubin, CEO of ConsenSys and co-founder of Ethereum, read Satoshi Nakamoto’s white paper on Bitcoin. The post ConsenSys Founder Believes Blockchain Technology can Help Produce Ethical Journalism appeared first on SiliconHills. He believed […].

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Founder Technology Cofounder Austin 113

David Cohen

SEPTEMBER 19, 2020

The three founders (Isaac, Tim, and Jose) were based in the Los Angeles area when they moved the company to Boulder for the Techstars Boulder Accelerator in 2009. 4: Zipline (2011). Techstars funded the company via our Techstars Seattle Accelerator in 2011. 5: Scopely (2011). 6: Outreach (2011). 7: R emitly (2011).

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San Antonio New York City Seattle Los Angeles 171

YoungUpstarts

MAY 25, 2011

Echelon , Southeast Asia’s biggest conference for technology startups, is back for its 2011 edition and looks to be even more exciting than before. Young Upstarts is a media partner of e27 and Echelon 2011. Many of these startups have all gone and made their mark – there’s Gothere.sg See you there!

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Singapore Asia Angel Investor Cofounder 160

Agile VC

JANUARY 4, 2012

NextView originally invested in the company’s seed round in the spring of 2011 and we again participated in this latest round along with Atlas Venture. In addition to compelling founders, we were drawn to the company by their vision for a professional community for mechanical engineers and designers. Outstanding arguments.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 24, 2013

The survey also revealed that 77-percent of companies experienced revenue growth (61-percent had profit growth) in 2012; however, there was a 9-percent decline in the response on profit growth in 2012 to 61-percent as compared to 2011 profit performance.

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Singapore Cost Technical Review Retention 133

Lightspeed Venture Partners

OCTOBER 7, 2012

The founders were very sympathetic; a man, laid off from his job, and his very pregnant wife, who sold their house and investing $150k into the business and are working hard to make a go of it. At this point, the very pregnant cofounder was weeping. But in the end Robert came back in to join Lori. Daymond offered to be an advisor.

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Technical Review Technical Cofounder Valuation Pre-Money Valuation 110

Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

Funding challenges and other issues founders face in the early days of starting up were the focus of interviews with the latest guests on Entrepreneurs are Everywhere , my radio show on SiriusXM Channel 111 (airing weekly Thursdays at 1 pm Pacific, 4 pm Eastern). Will Zell , co-founder and CEO of Nikola Labs wireless power company.

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Silicon Valley Ohio Columbus Entrepreneur 120

View from Seed

NOVEMBER 12, 2014

Josh Porter is the founder of What to Wear Daily , a service that helps you prepare for your day. He is best-known as the creator of 52 Weeks of UX and was also head of UX at HubSpot, by way of being co-founder of Performable (acquired in 2011). But they are also completely biased.

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Design Product Cofounder Boston 330

Transformify

APRIL 15, 2016

I met Innocent Moranga, the founder of the Founder Magazine , at a round table peer group at CEOWorld. All this inspired Innocent Moranga to found the Founder Magazine. Mbwana Alliy Founder and Managing Partner at Savannah Fund. Johnni Kjelsgaard Founder and CEO at GrowthAfrica. John Kieti Team Lead at m:lab.

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Kenya Africa Incubator Cofounder 45