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Is a Venture Studio Right for You?

Steve Blank

Venture Studios are an “idea factory” with their own employees searching for product/market fit and a repeatable and scalable business model. But these look for founders who have a technical or business model insight and a team. They do the most to de-risk the early stages of a startup.

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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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Technical Co-Founders Are A Myth

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Technical Co-Founders Are A Myth. Two years ago I got the bug to do an online recruiting startup and I began the hunt to find a technical co-founder - a software engineer who works for no cash - to help me build my dream website. I learned something: technical co-founders are a myth. skip to main | skip to sidebar. Real Advice.

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Am I a Founder? The Adventure of a Lifetime. « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

And I remind them that they should be bringing some type of domain expertise (technical or business) to the table. Yet for every founder there are 10-20 other employees who take the near-equivalent risks in joining an early-stage company. By now the company may have found and settled on a repeatable business model.

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Smart Bear Live 8: Edwin from MeetingKing.com

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

Now most of the businesses are small to medium- sized businesses. Jason: What do you mean by a medium-sized business? How many employees would a medium-sized business have in your definition? They are so happy that they finally have a tool to manage their business. Edwin: Oh sorry, so the business model.

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

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I ended up getting rejected by FriendFeed, and then told the other companies that I wasn’t quite ready to go back into the employee world and needed a few months to figure out what I really wanted to do next. Discord with a cofounder was one of the most fatal issues for a company. 13 – Disharmony with Investors/Co-founders.

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Why We Prefer Founding CEOs

Ben's Blog

VMware—Diane Greene. (*) While not technically cofounders, Andy Grove and Thomas Watson, Sr. Andy Grove was Intel’s third employee (after the two cofounders Robert Noyce and Gordon E. Despite this dynamic history, modern record company executives badly missed the most sweeping technical innovation—the Internet.