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Technical Co-Founders Are A Myth

blog.captainrecruiter.com

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. Captain Recruiter.

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Product Manager Entrepreneur Mark Geller

SoCal CTO

Visible networking is turning into a really great opportunity to get to know people better, get to meet new people, and have some interesting conversations. In junior high and high school, I did a bunch of programming, mostly self-taught. I know you are still in stealth, but what can you tell us. What are you working on now?

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Lean Startup fbFund wrap-up

Startup Lessons Learned

The same has been true of an unfortunate number of startups, they manage to generate a lot of hype, raise a lot of money, and sometimes make some of their investors, employees, or founders rich. bigs : @ericries says Stealth dev is a (undesirable, failure-presaging) customer-free zone. Danger, Will Robinson. Iterating at whiteboard !=

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Lessons Learned: Using AdWords to assess demand for your new.

Startup Lessons Learned

Most of the time, the experiments you run will have a zero percent conversion rate - meaning no customers were harmed during the making of this experiment. I would aim to get no more than 1o0 clicks per day - over the course of a week or two, youll get pretty good conversion data. Measure conversion rates.

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Launchpad LA – 10 Startup Companies to Watch

Both Sides of the Table

There were prominent founders of business like PriceGrabber, LowerMyBills and MyLife. We’ll be conducting a series of educational programes covering: fund raising, team building, product development, sales, marketing, business development and how to prioritize your time as a CEO. And of course we had, TheMan.

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The Entrepreneur’s Essentials #10: The most proven way to hire well

Austin Startup

At the time I applied, Wharton’s MBA program was ranked #1 in the country for the prior six years. This was exceptionally hard for a candidate to prepare for in the early days because our company was in stealth-mode, as I wrote about in this post. It was very intimidating to apply and face potential rejection.

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SXSW Pitch Finalist: PurePlus

Austin Startup

PurePlus is disrupting candy with stealth nutrition. Amy Keller , PurePlus Co-Founder and CEO calls this a revolution in the whole plant foods-based economy. I am most impressed by Jaden Smith, Founder of JUST Water and 501CThree. In a new category called Earth Functional Food?—?food million pounds of plastic and 1.4