YoungUpstarts

MAY 6, 2019

They make money by starting a product from scratch and then selling it in thousands of dollars. In most cases, they hit the jackpot when their products are sold for millions. You don’t have a product and most of your meetings will not bring any fruit. You are looking for cofounders that can help you build a product.

Startup 113

Startup Technical Cofounder Merger Early Stage 113

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 13, 2013

It was all technical. You know, the weird thing, Derek, and I should probably let you speak some time, but I was deeply technical when I went into Andersen consulting, and I got paid much less than engineers who graduated, because I had a degree in economics. Technical founder. So Mark, I want to build a great product.

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Cofounder Technical Cofounder San Diego Startup 337

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

MARCH 11, 2014

Listen to this episode if you want to hear about a founder who has a product and users and paying customers … and is trying to figure out how to take his company to the next level and grow faster. We started with the product about three years ago, development, a year later we released it. A lot has happened since then.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 27, 2013

Or maybe your projected earnings were reasonable, but your product demo went horribly wrong. If a VC asks his advisors what they think of your deal and they dislike it, it’s dead. The most effective pitch deck lays everything out simply for the audience. Pitching your product instead of your deal. Horrifying, but true.

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Venture Capital Technical Cofounder Milwaukee Valuation 180

Up and Running

JANUARY 21, 2015

The scandal over Tinder CEO Sean Rad and CMO Justin Mateen sexually harassing fellow cofounder Whitney Wolfe ended in a million dollar settlement and horrible publicity for the company. ” Many of Mateen’s sexist and racist text messages to Wolfe were made public as a result of the trial. Microsoft has some really bad karma.

Technical Cofounder 60

Technical Cofounder Cofounder Ohio Houston 60

Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 11, 2010

On the other extreme, modern web-based applications face almost no technical risk, and are governed by high market uncertainty. Eric) In a bar in Amsterdam in 2005, my two cofounders and I came to the sad conclusion that startup we tried to built for two years was doomed. We loved the product. Test users loved the product.

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Continuous Deployment Technical Cofounder Cofounder San Francisco 164

www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

What we didn’t account for was the magnitude of the current correction and the effect that it would have on discretionary luxury spending even within a population that financially could still afford our product. It lacked the audience my product needed to succeed – the early adopters web hackers looking for the next cool toy to play with.

Cofounder 89

Cofounder Startup Technical Cofounder CTO Hire 89

Hearpreneur

JULY 30, 2016

I am a session singer and producer, and I wish clients and peers would give me more of an opportunity to work in the technical side of the business (such as mixing and editing). One of the audience members introduced himself as representing a VC that was looking to encourage female entrepreneurs and business owners.

Technical Review 48

Technical Review Technical Cofounder Entrepreneur CTO Hire 48

Austin Startup

AUGUST 12, 2019

. & WORKING ADULT LEARNERS SXSW EDU | Track: Higher Education Speakers: Howard Lurie, Eduventures Principal Analyst at ACT | NRCCUA The Pitch: Seldom do schools have a moment to compare two fundamental audiences of potential students: traditional, first-time students and working adult learners.

Cofounder 51

Cofounder Entrepreneur Technical Cofounder Artificial Inteligence 51

Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

I care because by funding a product, you are giving voice to the idea that yes, it probably is necessary—and if we continue to ignore the contributions of women to the entrepreneurial space, we’re essentially concluding that their ideas hold less value. “In An incompatibility of product with venture capitalist.

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Venture Capital Lean Cofounder Technical Review 82

Up and Running

MAY 12, 2015

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.

Angel Investor 60

Angel Investor Software Review Technical Cofounder Due Diligence 60

Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 9, 2009

But that team may also include product marketers or other in-house customers who can give insight into the impact that solution trade-offs might have on customers. Its not good enough to hit product milestones and conduct usability tests. MeganMurray : "Behind every technical problem is a human problem. Those are only symptoms.

San Francisco 132

San Francisco Continuous Deployment Lean Agile 132

Up and Running

MARCH 1, 2016

Coming up with an idea or inventing a product is a process that takes commitment, dedication, and self-belief. Ultimately, inventing a product or coming up with an idea means one thing: solving a problem, whether it’s your own or someone else’s. What product doesn’t function like people wish it would? Step 5: Protect your idea.

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Non-disclosure Agreement NDA Non-Compete Naming 60

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

NOVEMBER 21, 2011

How to move from a free to a paid product without losing all your users. How cofounders can collaborate without going crazy. Jason: Yeah, I think we need to do is to decide on who your target audience and actually talk to some of them with the screen shot and see what they think. It’s like GTD products.

Widget 204

Widget Cofounder Technical Review Software Review 204

reidhoffman.org

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

First, understand your audience. Normally, you’d expect us to explain our product — i.e., what “professional people search 2.0” To show potential revenue streams, we listed three products: ads, listings, and subscriptions. The blue boxes identify the corresponding markets for those products. And why is it new?

Entrepreneur 111

Entrepreneur Revenue Viral Networking 111

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 24, 2011

How to move from a free to a paid product without losing all your users. How cofounders can collaborate without going crazy. One is find yourself an audience and a marketplace and that’s something you can start doing within a week. I think you have to do two things. Is that kind of what you were talking about?

Cofounder 208

Cofounder Technical Review Software Review Differentiation 208

www.paulgraham.com

AUGUST 1, 2008

In essense, let the market design the product. And in particular, younger and more technical founders will be able to start startups than could before. It would be better if both were combined in one group, headed by someone with a technical background and some vision of what they wanted to accomplish.

Web 54

Web Startup Silicon Valley Technical Review 54

Hearpreneur

JANUARY 7, 2017

This led me to realize there were two huge gaping holes in the industry, not just in terms of the way the industry served its customers – although undoubtedly this was a problem – but more importantly, inefficiencies and wastage that were always going to stop the private jet industry being accepted by a wider audience. Thanks to Keya F.

Entrepreneur 91

Entrepreneur LLC Cofounder Green 91