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A Technical Cofounder Tells You How To Find Your Technical Cofounder, Where The Stuff We Return to Amazon Goes, a Benchmark VC on Rethinking Your AI Startup, and More….

Hunter Walker

Holiday weekend here in the US means links for you to read Playing Different (Stupider) Games The Other End Of The Valuation Stick [Kyle Harrison, Contrary Capital] – Kyle puts out a new essay (almost) every Saturday and I really enjoy his consistent and clear eyed POV on venture capital.

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We’re all coders

Start Up Blog

As a startup entrepreneur I often get asked if I’m coder. This code is very lucrative when you understand its depth as it pertains to equities, venture capital, property and other income streams. Yes, we’re all coders. I used to say no. I sometimes use other codes, including the investing code.

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Now Any Accredited Investor Can Invest in Texas Startups with Capital Factory and AngelList

Austin Startup

Capital Factory has an early investor in many of the most successful startups in Texas over the past decade including Aceable , AlertMedia , BigCommerce , Coder , data.world , ICON , Spredfast , Storable , WP Engine and ZenBusiness.

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What Future for Accelerators?

Both Sides of the Table

And Jim & I went on to raise several more venture capital funds in our day jobs. We handed our offices over to our friends at General Assembly , who now use the space to train LA’s next generation of coders. She joined Mesa Global where she is doing both venture capital and investment banking.

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Startup Advice: When to Use a Consulting CTO

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If you’ve begun the process of raising capital, ask the angels or venture capital partners to recommend technologists who consult on a part-time basis. Reply What To Do When There’s No Venture Capital « Web Startup Help says: January 13, 2009 at 10:42 pm [.] Also try a search on LinkedIn.

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Breaking The VC Business Model For Next-Gen Investors

YoungUpstarts

Not only did we upgrade the San Francisco “coder” uniform, we accelerated to profitability at warp speed to become what we strive for in all our companies: a “best practices brand.” Whatever it is, I know it will be self-funded, it will risk only time and creativity, and it will be on the defining edge of venture capital best practices.

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Hazards of Hiring

www.ericsink.com

Many venture-capital-funded companies work this way. It really is true that the best coders are gifted with an aptitude. They are perhaps ten times more productive than average coders. Granted, a lot of these coders are driven purely out of hatred for Microsoft. Is this candidate one of those "10X coders"?

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