Both Sides of the Table

JULY 13, 2013

I started as a programmer, and then a database designer, and then a project manager, and I led conversion teams. It was all technical. She was paid much more than me and no matter how technical I was, they saw me as the business guy because I graduated with a degree in economics. Technical founder.

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www.startuplessonslearned.com

MAY 4, 2012

With their confidence in their startup and themselves, their passion for their work and their mission, and their desire not to harm the fragile dynamic within the nascent founding team, cofounders tend to plan for the best that can happen. But such a best-case approach is hazardous. Uncertainties abound.

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Steve Blank

MAY 11, 2009

In less than a month they designed a low-cost video-capture board that plugged into the Mac and allowed you to connect a video camera and VCR. The Cinepak codec was written by the engineer who would become my cofounder at Rocket Science Games.) There was nothing for the consumer to do. It worked great on the slow CPUs at the time.

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Up and Running

MAY 12, 2015

Enter a competition: Business plan and pitching competitions are a great way to get targeted, specific feedback; after all, you are putting yourself into a context where getting feedback is a main goal, as opposed to getting funding (though plenty of competitions do include a monetary prize). See Also Bplans Small Business Loan Finder.

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www.quora.com

JANUARY 16, 2011

Find Questions, Topics and People Add Question Add Question Non-Technical Co-Founders Co-Founders Technical Co-founders Finding Co-Founders Startups & "How Important Are Ideas?" you can steal an idea just from hearing it, it is not really a good defensible business idea. Yishan Wong • Nov 8, 2010 lol.if

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steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

signup, upgrade, trial pricing Zuora – online subscription management FeeFighters – find the cheapest credit card processors HealPay – Collections made easy Customer Support Tender – support, knowledgebase tool for your site GetSatisfaction - conversations between companies / customers.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

If your school doesn’t already have a student group designed to foster collaboration between groups of students with the skills necessary to get a startup rolling, start one! It brings together students from both the undergraduate and graduate levels, across disciplines such as design, computer science and business.

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Up and Running

MARCH 1, 2016

At Palo Alto Software, we use the One-Page Pitch feature in LivePlan to quickly validate new business ideas. You can do this on your own too using the lean planning methodology. See Also: One Easy Trick to Get Your Business Plan Done in Under an Hour. See Also: 10 Tools to Design Your Best Product Yet.

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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.

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