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Finding Technical Cofounders Is Hard

rob.by

Finding Technical Cofounders Is Hard. Yesterday, Michael Pope posted an article titled Technical Cofounders Are a Myth. He argued that software engineers don’t finish what they start, and that you’re better off paying a technical person than partnering with one. Tuesday, August 17, 2010.

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Guide to Finding a Technical Co-Founder | Vinicius Vacanti

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Home About Contact Me How To Make It as a First-Time Entrepreneur Vinicius Vacanti Guide to Finding a Technical Co-Founder September 7, 2010 | View Comments Steve Job's Technical Co-Founder “I’ve got this HUGE idea. I just need to find a technical co-founder.&# I was in this situation and we barely escaped.

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Validating Business Ideas Before Finding Technical Cofounders – Forbes

Scalable Startup

Validating Business Ideas Before Finding Technical Cofounders – Forbes.

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Where to Get Feedback on Your Business Pitch

Up and Running

Getting feedback on your pitch is a great idea; the more people evaluate your pitch before your investors see it, the more chances you have to catch any errors in reasoning, assumptions that are unclear to your audience, or things that just simply don’t make sense or flow well. See Also 5 Sure-fire Ways to Bomb Your Investor Pitch.

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Announcing Multicoin Capital

Austin Startup

But we got serious in early 2016 when we developed deep conviction around the immense technical vision of Ethereum. We’d also like to highlight two notable investors who participated in our first close: David Johnston began investing in Bitcoin in 2012. But we never lost the finance bug. The fund returned ~8x in 24 months.

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Timing: When to raise seed funding.

Scalable Startup

At this stage you’re essentially selling yourself and your cofounders. PreCog Security, a company I am currently helping to build as cofounder, is taking this approach. Also, if you can build a nice little group of advisors and partners you will have the added momentum from all those people as well as some potential future employees.

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How Universities Can Help Students and Alumni Work in the Tech Industry

David Teten

I’ve listed the most common levers that universities use below, with some live examples from Yale: Strong technical departments : Computer Science , Math , Physics. Or Yale could develop a legaltech incubation program and to help improve lawyers’ productivity, a profession whose primary tech tool is Microsoft Word.