David Teten

OCTOBER 1, 2015

Should you co-found your company with a software development shop? I’ve seen a range of options for supporting entrepreneurs, which I can rank from least to most involvement in companies by investors: financier VCs, e.g., Correlation Ventures. The question is: how should they be compensated when cofounding a company? The cliffs?

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

And make sure to read our recent posts with advice from Mint CEO Aaron Patzer on his advice to entrepreneurs as well ( here and here ). 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?&# The first post, From Nothing To Something.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 24, 2012

This fascinating story is his account of his incredible run from the Feds while cracking into the databases of such big names as Sun Microsystems and Motorola. “iWoz: Computer Geek to Cult Icon: How I Invented the Personal Computer, Co-Founded Apple, and Had Fun Doing It” by Steve Wozniak and Gina Smith.

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Technical Review Cofounder Technical Cofounder Silicon Valley 174

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 15, 2018

In my experience, the initial idea for a new product usually comes from a single entrepreneur, but the implementation plan for a new business requires a team, or at least a co-founder. Network to find co-founders as you network to find investors. Support local university entrepreneur organizations.

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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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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. Yes, even bootstrappers. liquidation preference.

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Steve Blank

MAY 29, 2011

The email continued, &# The problem I’m working on is that many founders are either making uninformed decisions or inefficiently learning the new skills they need. The solution I’m exploring is a just in time learning methodology that accelerates founders’ learning curve by aggregating relevant content, peers and mentors.&#.

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Reid Hoffman

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

We have interviewed many dozens of successful entrepreneurs and executives over the years, for our books and our podcasts, and we can’t recall any who said that an executive education class played a vital role in their success. Three mentioned the same name: Joi Ito, a venture capitalist and entrepreneur.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 1, 2019

New Age Meats cofounders Brian Spears and Andra Necula The Forrest Four-Cast: March 1, 2019 Fifty diverse startups will aim to impress a panel of judges and a live audience with their skills, creativity and innovation at SXSW Pitch Presented by Cyndx. Brian Spears , Cofounder and CEO, spoke about his San Francisco-based company.

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NZ Entrepreneur

DECEMBER 18, 2022

He’s also an investor and an entrepreneur with decades of experience at the helm of start-ups and established companies. Wellington UniVentures offers mentorship opportunities, access to pitch workshops and meetings where new ideas are screened, to name a few. “We We welcome engagement in all aspects of our process.

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Altgate

JUNE 7, 2009

  I've been wondering how the previous list of entrepreneur bloggers I posted maps to Twitter so I redid the list (order is now by Twitter followers which is the number in parentheses).   You can copy these screen names and paste them into NinjaFollow, press submit and voila!

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Cofounder Technical Cofounder Entrepreneur Venture Capital 58

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

What’s the name of the company? Dan: The name of the company is Member Desk. 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. e.g., “Thanks @TheDaveCollins for sponsoring #SmartBearLive!”

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NZ Entrepreneur

JANUARY 20, 2022

Sadness for the loss of a bright young New Zealander who had so much going for him, for the terrible loss for Jake’s mother and his whanau and friends, and for the loss of an up and coming innovator and entrepreneur to our business community. It also made me angry.

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New Zealand Founder Technical Cofounder Kenya 109

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

MARCH 11, 2014

Welcome back to Smart Bear Live … the show were Jason speaks with entrepreneurs looking to improve their businesses. 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.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 23, 2014

The problem is many entrepreneurs aren’t willing to take that risk. Entrepreneurs miss out on opportunities because they give up after one ‘no’ when the second or third or sixth request might have yielded a ‘yes.’. Persistence is the name of the game. Maybe you’re using too much technical jargon. The lesson?

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Up and Running

JANUARY 7, 2016

Entrepreneurs, being goal setters by nature, often like to participate with resolutions related to their small business or startup. I asked entrepreneurs to send me their new year’s resolutions, so you can get a snapshot into the mind of small business, and maybe find some 2016 resolution inspiration. In 2016, try something new.

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Entrepreneur Technical Cofounder Cofounder Chicago 60

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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Hearpreneur

JULY 30, 2016

Female entrepreneurs and business owners are no longer taken with a grain of salt. Female entrepreneurs continue to make strides in business despite the pay gap, discrimination, and gender politics which play out on both large and small stages. In 2015, businesses owned by women brought in more than $1.5 trillion in sales.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 22, 2011

Every night you are just hanging out with big name bands and the teams around them that brought them to their peak.&#. I turned around and there was StockTwits founder (and my favorite Tweeter) Howard Lindzon. And we’re here with Dan Martell , who like any great startup founder is wearing his company t-shirt for Flowtown.

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Genuine VC

JANUARY 29, 2008

You go to the site, enter or find the name of their product, and rate its condition. The CEO Rousseau Aurelien is a serial entrepreneur and former eBay PowerSeller. I am happy to share that we at Venrock have made an investment in a startup which directly addresses this problem.

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Genuine VC

JANUARY 29, 2008

You go to the site, enter or find the name of their product, and rate its condition. The CEO Rousseau Aurelien is a serial entrepreneur and former eBay PowerSeller. I am happy to share that we at Venrock have made an investment in a startup which directly addresses this problem.

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Technical Cofounder Cofounder Angel Investor 100

Reid Hoffman

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

We have interviewed many dozens of successful entrepreneurs and executives over the years, for our books and our podcasts, and we can’t recall any who said that an executive education class played a vital role in their success. Three mentioned the same name: Joi Ito, a venture capitalist and entrepreneur.

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Japan Technical Cofounder Silicon Valley Houston 28

www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

We’d previously highlighted the top startup failure post-mortems of all-time here (32 in total) written by a group of startup entrepreneurs gracious enough to share their lessons learned from their startup’s failure. Work life balance is not something that startup founders often get and so the risk of burning out is high.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 7, 2017

We asked some entrepreneurs and business owners, why they started their businesses: #1 – I Have a Dream. I am the founder/coach of Never Settle Coaching, LLC a coaching business. At the same time it seemed that whenever I would have a conversation with a friend, family member, colleague, manager, executive–you name it!–about

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The Next Web

JULY 13, 2012

The vision of Quick Left, it would seem, is to be somewhat of a technical cofounder as-a-service. ” With a list of clients that includes everything from TechStars startups to names like Photobucket and Awe.sm , the curriculum vitae of Quick Left is already impressive, and it’s growing.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

It is the first in a series of posts he’s writing about the decisions a young entrepreneur needs to make when she/he is first starting a business. 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. and Google. No office.

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thenetsetter.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Even less-obvious founders like the internet media personality and Digg founder Kevin Rose actually began in computer science. Are you inventing new technical solutions to a problem? In the cases of all the founders I just mentioned the answer was yes.

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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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reidhoffman.org

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

. × At Greylock , my partners and I are driven by one guiding mission: always help entrepreneurs. It doesn’t matter whether an entrepreneur is in our portfolio, whether we’re considering an investment, or whether we’re casually meeting for the first time. Entrepreneurs often ask me for help with their pitch decks.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

NOVEMBER 21, 2011

How cofounders can collaborate without going crazy. I see the name of Noel’s company. Why don’t you give Jason the name of your company or your URL? We’re an integrate from that company but we had a lot of regret in hindsight when it came with the name that we picked. The name game.

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siliconflorist.com

DECEMBER 22, 2012

Last year around the time PIE was starting, David Cohen , cofounder of TechStars , shared the TechStars Mentor Manifesto. If you’re thinking about becoming a mentor for startups—either in a formal accelerator program or independently—here are some tips for thinking about how to work with entrepreneurs. 3 Comments.

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www.frozennorth.org

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

AIM Screen Name: DFNfrozenNorth. During the two days of the show, one of their programmers sat in on my speech about building better customer service automation; I had an hour-long chat with the CEO and another of the founders; and their PR manager stopped by our booth for a 15-minute briefing about what we do. My professional blog is.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 24, 2011

My co-hosts were Bob Walsh and Patrick Foley , hosts of the well-known Startup Success Podcast. How cofounders can collaborate without going crazy. You’re going to tell Jason and Bob just the name of your URL, nothing else, and see if Jason can figure out what it is. So I have a question for you, Jason. Jason: Chext?

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www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Entrepreneur news from reporter Eric Markowitz. Advisor. ); STARTUP. Naming a Business. These days, start-up entrepreneurs like Parker do sometimes use equity not only to motivate key employees but also to help pay for consulting and other services. Todays Small Business News | Daily. Sales & Marketing | Wednesdays.

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Up and Running

MARCH 1, 2016

See Also: Got “Founder Fit”? If you do have competition, pay special attention to your product name, price range, materials used, what the product claims to do, packaging, and who the manufacturer is. See Also: Market Research Resources for Entrepreneurs. Your sell sheet should include: Your product name.

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Steve Blank

MAY 11, 2009

The Cinepak codec was written by the engineer who would become my cofounder at Rocket Science Games.) You may know it by its final name. I was the Senior Technical Writer for SMac from 1988-1991. There was nothing for the consumer to do. No settings, no buttons – plug your camera or VCR in and it just worked seamlessly.

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steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

This video should be the gold standard in explaining contract terms.

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