Cofounder Design Search Seed Money 
Steve Blank
JUNE 11, 2009
Posted on June 11, 2009 by steveblank When my students ask me about whether they should be a founder or cofounder of a startup I ask them to take a walk around the block and ask themselves: Are you comfortable with: Chaos – startups are disorganized Uncertainty – startups never go per plan Are you: Resilient – at times you will fail – badly.
Steve Blank
APRIL 8, 2010
He and his co-founder were both PhD’s in applied math who believe they can make some serious inroads on next generation search. We thought we’d take our plan and go raise seed money. We can’t raise money knowing our plan is wrong.”. asked the founder who had spent the time crafting the perfect plan. “On
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Up and Running
MAY 12, 2015
Drawing on advice from our own Tim Berry, founder of Palo Alto Software and Josh Cochrane, our VP of Product Development, I’ve broken down a few of the different options for entrepreneurs looking for feedback on their pitch. The three who agreed to do it had some semblance of a relationship with the founders beforehand.
cdixon.org
SEPTEMBER 17, 2011
I would think you would want to at least be cautious in discussing your virtualization idea with someone at VMware, your search idea with Google, etc. Finding cofounders is a biggy, and because 99.9% The idea has value, but the implementation and design model you follow (customer feedback loop) is where the traction will come from.
crowdSPRING Blog
APRIL 23, 2018
Web search existed before Google. As Apple design lead Jonathan Ive said , “It’s very easy to be different, but very difficult to be better.”. While it’s true that you sometimes need to spend money to make money, the amount of money you need to spend is where things get murkier. business environment.
www.paulgraham.com
OCTOBER 23, 2010
And since a startup thatsucceeds ordinarily makes its founders rich, that implies gettingrich is doable too. Googles plan, for example, was simply to create a search site thatdidnt suck. They had three new ideas: index more of the Web, uselinks to rank search results, and have clean, simple web pages withunintrusive keyword-based ads.
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. In later posts I’m going to get into more detail on specific topics like hiring, raising money, what types of ideas have the potential to get big, finding your founders, and the like.
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