Lightspeed Venture Partners

OCTOBER 7, 2012

At this point, the very pregnant cofounder was weeping. Daymond offered to be an advisor. The cofounder was charismatic and persuasive and asking for $85k for 12% of the company. This does neither, so I’m out” Cuban said, “I see you guys not as entrepreneurs but as wantrepreneurs” I agree with him.

Technical Review 110

Technical Review Technical Cofounder Valuation Pre-Money Valuation 110

Altgate

JUNE 7, 2009

  I've been wondering how the previous list of entrepreneur bloggers I posted maps to Twitter so I redid the list (order is now by Twitter followers which is the number in parentheses).    80% of the bloggers on the list are on Twitter.    I suspect there's a "sunk cost" argument driving this. 

Cofounder 58

Cofounder Technical Cofounder Entrepreneur Venture Capital 58

Tim Keane

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

« Picking Ventures: Part 1 | Main. | » September 28, 2011.   When we talk to entrepreneurs (or explain to others what we do) we often explain this in risk terms.   When we talk to entrepreneurs (or explain to others what we do) we often explain this in risk terms. November 2011. September 2011.

Technical Cofounder 68

Technical Cofounder Wisconsin Cofounder IP 68

blog.launchbit.com

MARCH 8, 2012

cofounders. technical cofounder. March 10, 2011. Why you can(t) recruit a technical cofounder. We know, however, that at some point, especially if you yourself are not technically-savvy, there will be a time where getting some technical expertise on the team is essential to continue progressing.

Technical Cofounder 47

Technical Cofounder Cofounder Equity Differentiation 47

www.startuplessonslearned.com

MAY 4, 2012

For example, most entrepreneurs know that the most successful entrepreneurs - from Bill Gates to Jeff Bezos - kept tight control over their companies. Having seen these dilemmas derail countless startups, I wish every entrepreneur and prospective founder would read this book." - Eric. But such a best-case approach is hazardous.

Equity 72

Equity Founder Technical Cofounder Cofounder 72

Altgate

DECEMBER 15, 2010

Personally I’ve done it both ways (solo as well as with one or more co-founders) and I think the “safety-in-numbers&# theory is more typical with first time entrepreneurs than with serial entrepreneurs. Anonymous Good point re distinction between first time entrepreneurs and serial entrepreneurs.

Pre-Money Valuation 66

Pre-Money Valuation Valuation Cofounder Founder 66

Hearpreneur

JANUARY 7, 2017

We asked some entrepreneurs and business owners, why they started their businesses: #1 – I Have a Dream. I was the first social entrepreneur in the coffee world. In 2011, I was looking for my next challenge. So I sat at home for a year to teach myself about optics and ended up founding Light with my cofounder in 2013.

Entrepreneur 91

Entrepreneur LLC Cofounder Green 91

www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Entrepreneur news from reporter Eric Markowitz. Advisor. ); STARTUP. The 2011 Inc. The 2011 Top Lists. These days, start-up entrepreneurs like Parker do sometimes use equity not only to motivate key employees but also to help pay for consulting and other services. Copyright © 2011 Mansueto Ventures LLC.

Fractional CTO 40

Fractional CTO Equity Iowa Technical Cofounder 40

David Teten

JANUARY 28, 2019

I’ve listed the most common levers that universities use below, with some live examples from Yale: Strong technical departments : Computer Science , Math , Physics. In 2011, Yale launched Yale-NUS, a sister university based in Singapore. There are currently over 1,000 Chinese students and scholars at Yale. I wrote a blog post on this.

Affiliate 60

Affiliate Connecticut Programming Community 60

davetroy.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Dave Troy: Fueled By Randomness Design, Entrepreneurship, Economics and Software home Twittervision Flickrvision About @davetroy ← Start By Taking Action A New Plan for Economic Development → In Entrepreneurial Ecosystem, Cofounders Find YOU! And I’ve promised to talk about what it takes to find cofounders.

Cofounder 41

Cofounder Technical Cofounder Baltimore Ruby 41

The Next Web

OCTOBER 3, 2012

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 early 2011, I wrote a post, Startups: Not for the faint of heart , that discussed Parse.ly’s survival through a one-year bootstrapping period after Dreamit Ventures Philly ’09. .”

Cofounder 155

Cofounder Technical Cofounder Technical Review Software Review 155

www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

January 11th, 2011 the Chubby Team 34 Comments. We’d previously highlighted the top startup failure post-mortems of all-time here (32 in total) written by a group of startup entrepreneurs gracious enough to share their lessons learned from their startup’s failure. Often times, many of them may be really good.

Cofounder 89

Cofounder Startup Technical Cofounder CTO Hire 89

Up and Running

MARCH 1, 2016

In 2011, it accounted for approximately $2.3 See Also: Market Research Resources for Entrepreneurs. Blackbox cofounder Bjoern Lasse Herrmann says, “Too many startups start building first without talking to customers. Today, a standard jeweler’s workbench from Rio Grande comes in at around $420. Today it is even larger.

Non-disclosure Agreement 60

Non-disclosure Agreement NDA Non-Compete Naming 60

www.quora.com

JANUARY 16, 2011

Find Questions, Topics and People Add Question Add Question Non-Technical Co-Founders Co-Founders Technical Co-founders Finding Co-Founders Startups & "How Important Are Ideas?" 5 Comments 30 Answers Tristan Kromer , I help entrepreneurs find co-founders. Developer, engineer, CTO, or technical co-founder?

Developer 42

Developer Technical Review Cofounder Technical Cofounder 42

steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

The Next Bubble – Don’t Get Fooled Again The Democratization of Entrepreneurship Reinventing the Board Meeting – Part 2 of 2 – Virtual Valley Ventures Why Board Meetings Suck – Part 1 of 2 Tune In, Turn On, Drop Out – The Startup Genome Project Greatest Hits – The Gigaom Interview The Four Steps to the Epiphany is Now (..)

Software Review 110

Software Review Startup Silicon Valley Analytics 110