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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 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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I’m Excited to Welcome Aaron Batalion to Lightspeed!

Lightspeed Venture Partners

A year later and the Hungry Machine team had one of the top apps on Facebook, a social network for book lovers called Visual Bookshelf. Over the next four years I worked closely with Aaron and his cofounders as LivingSocial rode out the ups and down of the local daily-deals space. Aaron was not an introverted CTO.

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I’m Exited to Welcome Aaron Batalion to Lightspeed!

Lightspeed Venture Partners

A year later and the Hungry Machine team had one of the top apps on Facebook, a social network for book lovers called Visual Bookshelf. Over the next four years I worked closely with Aaron and his cofounders as LivingSocial rode out the ups and down of the local daily-deals space. Aaron was not an introverted CTO.

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Top 30 Startup Posts in June 2010

SoCal CTO

Some great content around the intersection of startups and being a Startup CTO in June this year. This continues my series of posts: Top 29 Startup Posts May 2010 Startup CTO Top 30 Posts for April 16 Great Startup Posts from March There was some really great content in June. Now I have.

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Lessons Learned: About the author

Startup Lessons Learned

(Maybe youd like to start with The lean startup , How to listen to customers , or What does a startup CTO actually do? ) He previously co-founded and served as Chief Technology Officer of IMVU. He is the co-author of several books including The Black Art of Java Game Programming (Waite Group Press, 1996).

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Founder's Dilemmas: Equity Splits

www.startuplessonslearned.com

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. The book taps Noam’s analyses of data on 10,000 founders, plus the personal stories of Evan Williams of Twitter, Tim Westergren of Pandora, and two dozen other founders.

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Why Startups Fail - 20 Top Reasons Gleaned from 32 Startup Failure Post-Mortems

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Discord with a cofounder was one of the most fatal issues for a company. Bricabox cofounder advises, “When a co-founder walks out of a company — as was the case for me — you’ve already been dealt a heavy blow. One of the main reasons BricaBox failed was because it was solving a technical problem. 3 – Not the right team.