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10 Ways Your Startup Co-Founder Is Like A Good Spouse

Startup Professionals Musings

As a long-time business advisor and angel investor, I’m a believer that “two heads are better than one” in building a new business. In fact, I would broaden the definition of partner from co-founder to “business partner.” The challenge is to recognize and recruit that ideal partner match early with minimal cost and risk.

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10 Attributes Of The Perfect Partner For Your Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

As a long-time business advisor and angel investor, I’m a believer that “two heads are better than one” in building a new business. In fact, I would broaden the definition of partner from co-founder to “business partner.” The challenge is to recognize and recruit that ideal partner match early with minimal cost and risk.

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How to Pick a Partner Who Will Amplify Your Efforts

Startup Professionals Musings

As a long-time business advisor and angel investor, I’m a believer that “two heads are better than one” in building a new business. In fact, I would broaden the definition of partner from co-founder to “business partner.” The challenge is to recognize and recruit that ideal partner match early with minimal cost and risk.

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Finding Technical Cofounders Is Hard

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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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Scaling is Hard, Case Study: athenahealth

Seeing Both Sides

and Todd Park, a pair of Booz Allen consultants, as a physician practice management company for obstetrics. Bush and Park remembered the advice one of their early angel investors had given them: "Get close enough to your customer to understand what they really want. It's a contract for life. We have contracts for life.

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How do I find a developer to help me with my idea?

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For example, we have a mailing list in Seattle called “Seattle Tech Startups&# which is a great place to find a co-founder or developer-type. In addition, I would seek out angel investors and VCs in Philly. What It Really Means To Be a CTO Recent Tweets Error: Twitter did not respond. and Failblog.org.

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Top 57 Online Startups Meets Technology Meets Product Posts for November 2010

SoCal CTO

Equity-Only CTO and Equity-Only Developers - SoCal CTO , November 1, 2010 I had a recent email dialog with the founder of a company looking for a CTO for their startup. And I tried to evaluate the idea and figure out: What did the founder really need here? Was it a Startup Founder Developer Gap ? You got it.