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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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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 is the co-author of several books including The Black Art of Java Game Programming (Waite Group Press, 1996). While an undergraduate at Yale Unviersity, he co-founded Catalyst Recruiting. Eric, love the blog.

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The Ultimate Inventor’s Guide to Inventing Things

Up and Running

Everything you see around you—every item you own, every book you’ve read, every app you use, every website you browse—was once nothing more than an idea in someone else’s head. Read our article on strategic ways to price your products or services. A licensee is a company that agrees to manufacture and sell your product idea.

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Smart Bear Live 8: Edwin from MeetingKing.com

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

Does that make sense to you and you’re like yes, I can get a million of those guys just like Fresh Books did and so forth? You have your general management meeting and in your general management meeting you talk about product development, about marketing and about finance. Well yeah, you could potentially find a cofounder.

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Snaptrip case study – Solo founder hypothesis in action

The Equity Kicker

His hypothesis was that consumers were moving towards last minute bookings and there was a gap in the market. With no team and no technical expertise Matt was planning to find a team and build out some product before starting to raise some seed money. FINDING A COFOUNDER.

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Lessons Learned: Built to learn

Startup Lessons Learned

At IMVU, I remember spending an incredible amount of time iterating on the model that would power our third-party developer economy. My cofounders and I would hash out nuances and details almost every day, re-drawing diagram after diagram on the whiteboard. MeganMurray : "Behind every technical problem is a human problem.

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From Nothing To Something. How To Get There.

techcrunch.com

Post launch, if you gain traction, is where the business person will help take the load off of the technical folks. The business person can take all the meetings while the technical folks work on making the product better. Second, like I said, forget everything else and just get your product out the door.