SoCal CTO

APRIL 28, 2014

I guess it should not be a surprise that Founders have lots of challenges working with developers. Challenges I started by asking the founders in the room to tell me some of the challenges they have working with developers. Developers (and Founders) are challenged to know how much is okay in terms of bugs. Changing Your Mind.

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blog.launchbit.com

MARCH 8, 2012

cofounders. technical cofounder. Why you can(t) recruit a technical cofounder. There are a lot of aspects to this ranging from finding your first paying customer and validating your idea to putting together a minimum viable product that lets you learn about your business as quickly as possible. Viewed times.

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Feld Thoughts

SEPTEMBER 2, 2011

Jane and Dick, our fearless cofounders of SayAhh, have set up an accounting system and created their first set of financial statements. This week they set out to create their cap table and hire a CTO. The founders each have common shares that will vest over four years. Time to update the cap table.

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blog.nahurst.com

JULY 19, 2010

Nathan Hursts Blog Thoughts on Software, Technology, and Startups « Back to blog Im on the technical side of entrepreneurship in NYC. The graphic below balances the risks cofounders take with their relative contributions to help answer this question. I love programming, board games, and my wife. This doesnt have to be the case.

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www.virtuosimedia.com

MARCH 8, 2012

Home ▶ Businesses ▶ Startup Business Advice ▶ Current Page How To Find A Technical Cofounder For Your Online Business Idea. This article should also serve as a starting guide for programmers who are approached about becoming technical co-founders. Before You Pitch To A Technical Cofounder.

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blog.captainrecruiter.com

MARCH 8, 2012

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.

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Up and Running

JULY 28, 2022

Generally, the size is based on the number of employees and annual receipts for a given period. Small Business Administration , an organization is considered to be a small business if their: Firm revenue ranges from $1 million to $40 million Number of employees is between 100 and 1,500. Develop a founders agreement.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 25, 2018

Co-mingling personal and business funds and accounts creates legal risk and tax liability, and makes your efforts look like a hobby. Advisors and investors need to see your whole story in as few as ten slides. Most investors expect a minimum viable product (MVP) sold to at least one customer.

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Hunter Walker

DECEMBER 13, 2020

It doesn’t matter what industry, what product, what revenue model, what stage of development. You’re spending much of your time selling: the vision to employees, the opportunity to investors, the story to the press, the offering to the customers, the relationship to partners. Some weeks you’ll be selling more than you’re sleeping!!!

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techcrunch.com

MARCH 8, 2012

The Trouble With Non-tech Cofounders. This is a guest post by Scott Allison, CEO and founder of Teamly.com. I want to reflect on my experience as a non-technical founder and reassess my original decision – almost two years ago – to stick to what I’m good at, and not waste time learning to code. guest author.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 29, 2019

Image via Max Pixel Startup investors tell me they invest in a new venture with a higher caliber of people, rather than the product or service, and I agree. In my role as a business advisor, I see successful businesses most often emerging from great teams rather than great products. Be patient when filling open positions.

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venturehacks.com

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

SUPPORTED BY Products Archives @venturehacks Books AngelList About RSS How to pick a co-founder by Naval Ravikant on November 12th, 2009 Update : Also see our 40-minute interview on this topic. Picking a co-founder is your most important decision. It’s more important than your product, market, and investors.

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Up and Running

JUNE 14, 2012

Do I need a co-founder? These are some of the most frequent questions about co-founders that I have heard from entrepreneurs over the years. Do I need a co-founder? How many co-founders should I have? I have seen many successful companies with as few as 2 and as many of 11 co-founders.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 22, 2019

For example, it is a no-brainer to first take advantage of the wave of new capabilities for data collection and smarter analysis to improve productivity and marketing. AI assistants in homes are great (Google Assistant, Siri and Alexa) – but to children, they might easily be considered co-parents or teachers.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 6, 2013

If you are a young startup founder, how do you find that CEO or other executive for your “dream team” to close on funding or complement your skills to kick start your company? Also, trusted advisors and experienced investors should be polled for good candidates. Most founders are product guys. Everybody wins.

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David Teten

OCTOBER 1, 2015

Should you co-found your company with a software development shop? intrapreneurs, e.g., the employee of GE who is tasked with launching a new business. intrapreneurs, e.g., the employee of GE who is tasked with launching a new business. The question is: how should they be compensated when cofounding a company? The cliffs?

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 20, 2019

by Everett Harper, CEO and cofounder of Truss. From a customer standpoint, there are nuances that go into buying a product, and then using the product. However, particularly in the A-B series interim an independent third party can uncover product or market blind spots. Series A to C: Automation.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 15, 2017

Startup investors tell me they invest in a new venture with a higher caliber of people, rather than the product or service, and I agree. In my role as a business advisor, I see successful businesses most often emerging from great teams rather than great products. Be patient when filling open positions.

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 3, 2012

Andrew is the co-founder and CTO of Parse.ly , a technology startup that provides big data insights to the web’s best publishers. He wrote: When startups die, the official cause of death is always either running out of money or a critical founder bailing. Editor’s note: This is a guest post by Andrew Montalenti.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

The number one question you all asked after reading my last blog post about starting a business from scratch was “how do I find my co-founders?&# And therein lies the problem in finding co-founders for that startup you’re dying to launch. Having trouble meeting folks you think would be good co-founders?

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Cracking the Code

MARCH 29, 2022

Yotam Segev (left) and Tamar Bar-Ilan (right), cofounders of Cyera The complex equation of data reality With AWS, Azure and GCP growing 40-50% YoY at massive scale (AWS’ run rate is more than $70B!), The issue is that existing products focus on endpoints and on-premise datastores. Sub-categories include DLP (e.g.

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 18, 2013

Anthony Bosschem is the founder and head of Darwin Analytics. Before our company even had a product, we acquired our first customers just by selling our ideas alone. Great design maximizes the impact of technical innovation. Your product could function well, but if it isn’t easy to use, it won’t retain fans.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 11, 2009

Passionate – is the company/product/customers the most important thing in your life? And I remind them that they should be bringing some type of domain expertise (technical or business) to the table. This is the minimum feature set for founders. Founders know they want to start something. The Adventure of a Lifetime.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 13, 2013

It was all technical. You know, the weird thing, Derek, and I should probably let you speak some time, but I was deeply technical when I went into Andersen consulting, and I got paid much less than engineers who graduated, because I had a degree in economics. Technical founder. And my specialty was computer networks.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2018

Brunner (@heatherjbrunner) | Twitter Preston James Co-founder & CEO DivInc Preston is at the center of everything Diversity & Inclusion in Austin. Advisor, Austin Mayor Steve Adler Eugene has long operated at the intersection of business, government & nonprofits, locally and nationally.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 15, 2019

by Ron Price and Stacy Ennis, coauthors of “ Growing Influence: A Story of How to Lead with Character, Expertise, and Impact “ One of the long-term challenges of the workplace is how many employees feel powerless. For many years, employee surveys around the world have measured levels of engagement as high as 70% or more.

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SoCal CTO

JULY 13, 2010

Some great content around the intersection of startups and being a Startup CTO in June this year. This continues my series of posts: Top 29 Startup Posts May 2010 Startup CTO Top 30 Posts for April 16 Great Startup Posts from March There was some really great content in June. Now I have. The sunk costs trap. Which button do you press?

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 26, 2015

Startup founder Deekron Krikorian of MotionTraxx, was able to pursue his dream of spending a summer abroad in Ibiza, enjoying the music and nightlife of one of the clubbing capitals of the world, while using technology, co-working and other tools to effectively managing his startup and ensuring it moves forward towards its goals while he was abroad.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 13, 2011

It’s important to remember that achievements are often less dependent on your technical know-how and more dependent on how you organize and think. I routinely tell my employees that I’m not their father and won’t babysit them, and that if they tell me they’re going to do something, they’d better make good on that assurance.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

MARCH 11, 2014

Listen to this episode if you want to hear about a founder who has a product and users and paying customers … and is trying to figure out how to take his company to the next level and grow faster. We started with the product about three years ago, development, a year later we released it. A lot has happened since then.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 6, 2019

They make money by starting a product from scratch and then selling it in thousands of dollars. In most cases, they hit the jackpot when their products are sold for millions. You don’t have a product and most of your meetings will not bring any fruit. You are looking for cofounders that can help you build a product.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 10, 2017

Before graduating, I decided to forgo the finance path and instead dove into engineering and later sales and product management roles at VersaSuite (health IT) in Austin. But we got serious in early 2016 when we developed deep conviction around the immense technical vision of Ethereum. We were infatuated with tech. Factom, Inc.

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The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 7, 2013

Vik Singh is CEO and cofounder of Infer , which recently raised a $10 million Series A round from Redpoint Ventures and provides data-powered applications to companies like Box, Jive, Nitro, Tableau, and Zendesk. . Don’t spread your company thin with many mediocre products, even if every other enterprise company is touting 10.

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Up and Running

JANUARY 21, 2015

Walmart asks its employees to purchase their own uniforms. This year, Walmart employees are required to purchase new clothing to be able to work in the stores. What does that mean for those employees? We’ve gathered up some of the worst fails of 2014 and included some helpful tips on how to avoid them yourself.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 4, 2008

(Maybe youd like to start with The lean startup , How to listen to customers , or What does a startup CTO actually do? ) He previously co-founded and served as Chief Technology Officer of IMVU. He is the co-author of several books including The Black Art of Java Game Programming (Waite Group Press, 1996). Eric, love the blog.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

So Member Desk is a virtual and yet it can also be physical, literally sitting in the front of the co- working space inexpensive way to do that for pretty much any organization. Let’s people sell premium digital content online without dealing with any of the technical stuff. What’s your opinion on finding a co-founder?

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www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

After a thorough analysis of those 32 start-up post-mortems, we have determined the common reasons founders gave to compile this list of the top 20 ways to have your startup fail. It lacked the audience my product needed to succeed – the early adopters web hackers looking for the next cool toy to play with. Startups are hard.

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