SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

When I got to college, I did not see myself as a full-time coder, so I majored in biology, which was my favorite subject at the time. In addition, I do a few consulting projects on the side, in the areas of product strategy, search engine optimization, and intellectual property. Tell me a bit about the Founder's Institute.

Management 150

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www.women2.org

MARCH 8, 2012

female founders. founder friday. Lessons learned from female founders and women entrepreneurs. Startup Quote: Wendy Tan White on Building a Successful Startup » FounderDating: How I Found My Co-Founder. Tweet By Elizabeth Knopf (Co-Founder & CEO, Sorced). Conference 2012.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 31, 2016

Both me and my co-founder, Abhishek, met in first year of collage (IIT-Bombay). Failing to find a coder whose vision aligned with ours, we ended up coding ActivityDeck website ourselves. I haven’t looked back since. Thanks to Garren Heye, Ruckworks. #2 2 – To Connect Students and Teachers. A mobile app is on its way.

Entrepreneur 48

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 2, 2008

Do the engineers understand what they are building? And the same is true in reverse - a lone brilliant coder can build a great widget, but it takes a system of people working well together to produce consistently great results. Processes are always deteriorating or self-regulating. Can they tell a good release from a bad one?

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 15, 2009

So developers stuck in this world tend to think the other developers on their team are either, deep in their souls, plodding pedants or sloppy coders. One is used by engineers to refer to the process of getting code fully integrated into production. Neither is true – they just have their incentives all messed up.

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Up and Running

JANUARY 13, 2014

Aron Susman, co-founder of The Square Foot, offers advice on vetting vendors. From dinner recipes to peculiar medical problems, a search engine holds the answers. They wanted to create a search engine-like site that would allow small businesses to find retail, industrial and office space in specific areas.

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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?" " Web Development Startups Solo Founders I am a creative guy with a startup idea.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

One of the things I do as a founder of a later stage startup is to meet with early stage entrepreneurs to help them get their companies going. The best composition is probably one engineer whose passion lies in the pixels on the screen and another engineer whose passion is making bits fly really fast through servers. and Google.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

He is, like all of us, an online speaker, coach, consultant, podcaster; but he’s also the founder of WP Elevation , which is the world’s largest business community for WordPress consultants. I started out as a consultant, where I would literally be under the hood tuning the engine and fixing the things for the clients.

Community 42

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The Next Web

JANUARY 27, 2013

One of the things I found most valuable from participating in the Founder Institute was a lesson about the Golden Circle by Simon Sinek. Nowadays I’m not a great coder, but in 12 months I learned how to rock in HTML/CSS, JS & Python. One of the darkest moments as an entrepreneur for me was to have co-founders leave the company.

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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 7, 2007

But when done well it can really help get a company going fast, professionally and without the founders having to give up much (if any) equity - or bankrupting themselves. The founders may believe they are onto such a good idea that they don’t want to give up any equity. Our team is 5 engineers, 2 QA and a project manager.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 12, 2022

Brennan is the Co-founder of RightMessage, writes weekly at Create & Sell, and wrapping up a new book on personalized marketing. Brennan Dunn is the co-founder of RightMessage, a software company that helps you uncover who’s on your website, what they do, and what they’re looking for from you.

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maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

Whats is the best way to find a co-founder for your startup? If you’re looking for a designer, engineer, or biz marketing guy – go to meetups / conferences that those people would go to. With that live, you’ll be able to show other smart engineers and advisors that you’re willing to take some risk and build something.

Technical Review 44

Technical Review Startup Cofounder Software Review 44

thinkspace.com

SEPTEMBER 7, 2012

How to Divide Equity to Startup Founders, Advisors, and Employees. The part that I’d like to zero in on is when you’ve got a high growth company what are some of the best practices out there to distribute equity to the founders, advisors, and employees? Equity for Founders. Lead Engineer 0.5 - 1. Office Space.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 7, 2008

Labels: iPhone , search engine marketing 3comments: Th.Khangs said. ► August (2) SXSW Case Study: SlideShare goes freemium ► July (4) Case Study: kaChing, Anatomy of a Pivot Some IPO speculation Founder personalities and the “first-class man&# th. The App Store is a channel for customer acquisition.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

If you’re a visiting dignitary whose country has a Gross National Product equal to or greater than the State of California, your visit to Silicon Valley consists of a lunch/dinner with some combination of the founders of Google, Facebook, Apple and Twitter and several brand name venture capitalists. California Dreaming.

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Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Ben is the Chief Executive Olarker (CEO) and co-founder of Olark Live Chat. In this episode, CEO and co-founder of Olark, Ben Congleton, talks about the building of Olark and how they’ve differentiated themself in such a competitive industry. He's the chief executive o Larker and co-founder of O LA Live Chat.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 28, 2009

Luckily for me, my co-founders eventually prevailed and we went on to build a product that customers actually wanted. As a fellow coder, I empathizes with you about having to throw away work that wasnt broken in anything but a business sense. But code written that doesnt help the company succeed is a sunk cost.

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San Francisco Continuous Deployment Lean DC 98

Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 1, 2009

How many people - coders - do you think a small startup with a 6mm pages/month site should have? ► August (2) SXSW Case Study: SlideShare goes freemium ► July (4) Case Study: kaChing, Anatomy of a Pivot Some IPO speculation Founder personalities and the “first-class man&# th. but Im always short in hands.

Lean 60

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Kodorra

AUGUST 23, 2018

Well, a big FYI to all – iPhone and Android were not the first mobile phones, Facebook was not the first social network ( Six Degrees was), Google, not the first search engine (see Archie ),the list goes on. Mistake – Choosing the Wrong Partner or Co-Founder. But these companies are the best in their markets.

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sivers.org

JUNE 25, 2010

Nothing essential that I disagree with you in your post, but when read by other people with minimal software engineering experience, they can have too high expectations. Programmers, and certainly not the visionary founders, are the most qualified for that task. #6 Co-founders and outsourcing work the same.

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www.quora.com

JANUARY 16, 2011

Find Questions, Topics and People Add Question Add Question Team Configuration 500 Startups Guerilla Marketing Organizations Entrepreneurship Startup Founders & Entrepreneurs Startups Startup Incubators and Seed Programs Seedcamp Y Combinator TechStars Lean Startups What is the perfect startup team?

Technical Review 51

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 11, 2009

As a founder of a company, there is nothing more painful than to see your most loyal and devoted customers suffering. That is what company founders and staff do not get. Support the Startup Founders Visa with a tweet Testing the new Disqus comment system Gov 2.0 " I couldn't agree more. We WORK, not just play, on IMVU.

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