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Finding a Technical Cofounder

bizthoughts.mikelee.org

BizThoughts Thoughts about business, technology, the web & entrepreneurship About Booklist Contact Nov 15 2011 Finding a Technical Cofounder By Mike Lee Categories: Entrepreneurship , Leadership Since I have a technical background, I get about one offer a month to join some engineering team, or to be a technical cofounder.

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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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20 Best Biographies For Tech-Minded Students

YoungUpstarts

Schatzkin’s book has great insights into how the inventor of the television made his breakthrough at the amazing age of 14. ” But as you’ll learn in this bio, he was a brilliant man who wrote more than 470 books on topics across the spectrum. “The Boy Who Invented Television” by Paul W. Farnsworth.

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Discussion Creation Among Bloggers - LinkedIn, Blogging and Discussion Groups

SoCal CTO

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Thursday, March 22, 2007 Discussion Creation Among Bloggers - LinkedIn, Blogging and Discussion Groups Ive been participating in a Yahoo Group that are users of LinkedIn and who are Bloggers: [link] Its an interesting group of folks from diverse backgrounds. in Computer Science.

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Everything you always wanted to know about cofounders

Up and Running

It could be an engineer and a business person, or it may need two different sets of engineering skills and a business person. Every business needs some technical skill and some business acumen. A good engineer can design something fancy but that doesn’t mean there’s a market for it or that it will sell.

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Startup Grind Turns the Tables on Mark Suster

Both Sides of the Table

I bought a book and I learned how to program macros and build spreadsheets. 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.

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How to Find the Time to Accomplish Anything

Feld Thoughts

Maybe you want to write an app or a book. In the last five years, I’ve managed to find the time to write, publish and promote multiple books, including two award-winning bestsellers , develop a web application, maintain a blog, and present at conferences. My blog posts, in turn, get repurposed into books. Apocalypse.