View from Seed

APRIL 21, 2015

On the heels of our research on HBS entrepreneurs , NextView’s Dimitri Dadiomov (HBS ’15) interviewed several top founders on the early stages of their companies. Matt Prince , Co-Founder and CEO, CloudFlare (Web performance and security to protect and accelerate websites; $72.1

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Software By Rob

MAY 24, 2010

Join nearly 6,000 startup entrepreneurs by subscribing to my RSS feed. Late Stage Co-Founder Wanted – [Filled] I’ve been contacted by a colleague who has been working on a SaaS application in a fairly large market. No obligation; the current founder will not know who you are unless you decide to contact him.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 11, 2010

Ask a technical founder about his startup, and he'll proudly describe his stunning software — simple, compelling, useful, fun. Great," I always exclaim, sharing the thrill of modern software development, "so how will people find out about this brilliant website?". Cue sound of cicadas buzzing. (Or

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mashable.com

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

Brett Miller is the president of Custom Software by Preston (CSP). For more than 10 years CSP has impressed clients with highly effective software solutions and teams of multi-talented software engineers.

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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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The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

In all seriousness, the Q&A panel session will include European entrepreneurs like Guillaume Decugis, who sold Musiwave for $125 million and is currently co-founder and CEO of Scoop.it, and Unity Technologies co-founder and CEO David Helgason (read our interview with him ).

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The Next Web

NOVEMBER 17, 2013

Tal Raviv is the co-founder of Ecquire. Whether that means chasing down a technical co-founder, learning to code, or even building that “Lean MVP” – the conventional wisdom is that without tech abilities you’re nothing more than a dude (or dudette) with a Powerpoint. This post was originally published on OnStartups.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 20, 2007

► February (2) CTO Founders / Cofounders Part-Time Startup CTO? ► January (5) Los Angeles Web Developer Startup CTO or Developer When to Use Facebook Connect – Twitter Oauth – Goo. Product Manager Entrepreneur Mark Geller SEO for Startups Startup Version 1.0

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 19, 2013

Ryan Hoover is the co-creator of Product Hunt , creator of Startup Edition , and instructor at Tradecraft. GitHub can be a fantastic resume for software developers. When I announced my departure without a plan, the network I grew from blogging, reached out with support. Can we all agree resumes are crummy?

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 4, 2013

Starting out, you can’t hit every network and outlet full-force. Initially, your staff (even if that’s just you and a co-founder) will be your greatest asset in locating and connecting with your audience. Prioritize social networks. Now, the startup and its software solutions are both household names.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 5, 2007

However, Elgg could power 100,000 networks and it would make no difference - there is no revenue stream as we give everything away under a GPL license. There are quite a few other Software Development Companies in Southern California working on open source and/or freemium business models.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 9, 2007

► February (2) CTO Founders / Cofounders Part-Time Startup CTO? ► January (5) Los Angeles Web Developer Startup CTO or Developer When to Use Facebook Connect – Twitter Oauth – Goo. Product Manager Entrepreneur Mark Geller SEO for Startups Startup Version 1.0

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 20, 2007

► February (2) CTO Founders / Cofounders Part-Time Startup CTO? ► January (5) Los Angeles Web Developer Startup CTO or Developer When to Use Facebook Connect – Twitter Oauth – Goo. Product Manager Entrepreneur Mark Geller SEO for Startups Startup Version 1.0

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 13, 2007

► February (2) CTO Founders / Cofounders Part-Time Startup CTO? ► January (5) Los Angeles Web Developer Startup CTO or Developer When to Use Facebook Connect – Twitter Oauth – Goo. Product Manager Entrepreneur Mark Geller SEO for Startups Startup Version 1.0

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 28, 2007

► February (2) CTO Founders / Cofounders Part-Time Startup CTO? ► January (5) Los Angeles Web Developer Startup CTO or Developer When to Use Facebook Connect – Twitter Oauth – Goo. Product Manager Entrepreneur Mark Geller SEO for Startups Startup Version 1.0

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 25, 2007

► February (2) CTO Founders / Cofounders Part-Time Startup CTO? ► January (5) Los Angeles Web Developer Startup CTO or Developer When to Use Facebook Connect – Twitter Oauth – Goo. Product Manager Entrepreneur Mark Geller SEO for Startups Startup Version 1.0

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 17, 2007

► February (2) CTO Founders / Cofounders Part-Time Startup CTO? ► January (5) Los Angeles Web Developer Startup CTO or Developer When to Use Facebook Connect – Twitter Oauth – Goo. Product Manager Entrepreneur Mark Geller SEO for Startups Startup Version 1.0

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 17, 2007

► February (2) CTO Founders / Cofounders Part-Time Startup CTO? ► January (5) Los Angeles Web Developer Startup CTO or Developer When to Use Facebook Connect – Twitter Oauth – Goo. Product Manager Entrepreneur Mark Geller SEO for Startups Startup Version 1.0

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 17, 2007

Sometimes, Ill use LinkedIn to contact my network, but mostly I still just go to their profile and email them. When I recently was looking to find people who had experience with using social networks to reach people for what might be considered guerilla marketing efforts, again LinkedIn worked great.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 27, 2007

Some items from the pod cast: 100,000 - babies born as a result of relationships started on eHarmony 15M registered 1% of marriages in US this year resulting from eHarmony I dont know if these are true, but still, the impact of the vision of the original founders Neil Clark Warren and Greg Forgatch is amazing.

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This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

On top of that, most of a school's major donors are likely to be entrepreneurs in some way. Give them that and they'll decide on their own to be a founder. If anything, the business school students need to figure out what their value add is to a design or software development student. Support the student club ecosystem.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 12, 2007

► February (2) CTO Founders / Cofounders Part-Time Startup CTO? ► January (5) Los Angeles Web Developer Startup CTO or Developer When to Use Facebook Connect – Twitter Oauth – Goo. Product Manager Entrepreneur Mark Geller SEO for Startups Startup Version 1.0

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 25, 2007

Part of the discussion around this is the talk about the founder who only got $83M (as compared to $3xxM for the other founders) who bailed out early and choose to go back to school. ► February (2) CTO Founders / Cofounders Part-Time Startup CTO? Marketing, Startups and Networking in Los Angeles.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 17, 2007

► February (2) CTO Founders / Cofounders Part-Time Startup CTO? ► January (5) Los Angeles Web Developer Startup CTO or Developer When to Use Facebook Connect – Twitter Oauth – Goo. Product Manager Entrepreneur Mark Geller SEO for Startups Startup Version 1.0

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 20, 2007

LA is a vibrant community with a rich network of angels that fund early stage companies, lots of VCs, easy access to big media, lots of innovation in media, mobile content, games, green, health care, and many, many others. Probably the biggest drawback of Los Angeles is the distance and traffic that makes networking more difficult.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 30, 2013

I’ve set at the table as a lawyer, and now, over the past six years, have the perspective of an entrepreneur and small business owner. Entrepreneurs hate lawyers. Too many people make the mistake of forming a company and reaching agreement among co-founders without consulting a lawyer. When to hire a lawyer.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 20, 2007

► February (2) CTO Founders / Cofounders Part-Time Startup CTO? ► January (5) Los Angeles Web Developer Startup CTO or Developer When to Use Facebook Connect – Twitter Oauth – Goo. Product Manager Entrepreneur Mark Geller SEO for Startups Startup Version 1.0

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The Next Web

MARCH 24, 2013

But between visioning sessions, collaborative software development and Linus’ Law of bug detection — we’ve been taught to accept the wisdom of crowds as necessary to most startup decision-making. Investor and 500 Startups founder Dave McClure offered TNW a few of his thoughts. Groupthink. A billion dollars.”

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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?

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 22, 2007

Its also been interesting to see the interaction of tools involved - Social Networking, Blogging and a Discussion Group. The level of resumes we get through our LinkedIn networks is top notch. Weve also found that other social networks such as FaceBook and MySpace to have almost no results when it comes to recruitment.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

I am heavily indebted to earlier theorists, and highly recommend the books Lean Thinking and Lean Software Development. So far, I have found "lean startup" works better with the entrepreneurs Ive talked to than "agile startup" or even "extreme startup.") Leonardo Da Vinci noted that: "Simplicity is the ultimate in sophistication".

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www.geekwire.com

JULY 10, 2012

ENTREPRENEURS. But Seattle entrepreneur Aaron Roberts, a former engineer… Read More. Software Developer. Senior Software Engineer - Web-based Applications. at Tableau Software. Front-end UI Software Engineer. IT staffing, consulting and software development services. Contact Us.

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

Business plans for entrepreneurs: the three ‘Rs’ – Part I – [link]. Business plans for entrepreneurs: the three ‘Rs’ – Part I – [link]. Business plans for entrepreneurs: the three ‘Rs’ – Part I – [link]. Important insight – Harsh Realities From 500 Startups Founders – [link].

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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. In the cases of all the founders I just mentioned the answer was yes. This is better than hiring for a number of reasons: Hiring a good developer is not cheap.

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2012

The Founders Lie About Comfort Zones – [link]. Investors Need to Lose Their Egos and Founders Need to Gain Some Confidence – [link]. 10 adjustments to make when working for a Big Co. The Anti-Social Era: Lessons Learned from Vimeo Founder Jake Lodwick – [link]. Your Brand is What You Do – [link].

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Software By Rob

JUNE 10, 2010

Join nearly 6,000 startup entrepreneurs by subscribing to my RSS feed. Thousands of people who are better developers than you, are better at evaluating markets, and better at marketing software have built products and still work for a living. Check out my book Subscribe via RSS Thousands of entrepreneurs cant be wrong.

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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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