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How to find the right cofounder

NZ Entrepreneur

Wondering how to find the right cofounder but don’t know where to start? If you are a solo founder, you may be able to do it all on your own initially but you’re making it very difficult for yourself. In my opinion, founders or early stage companies should only have a team of two or three people. This will never work.

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Startup Grind Turns the Tables on Mark Suster

Both Sides of the Table

His father came from Romania. So my family is Jewish and very typical immigration story – his father left Romania at 19, had to get a fake passport in order to get out of the country, left and never went back, and left in the middle of winter and got frostbite. Then everyone just started calling me a serial entrepreneur.

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The @TWTFelipe Story – A Tale of US Visa Policy Gone Awry (#startupvisa)

Both Sides of the Table

I’ve been meaning to write this post since September of last year when Brad Feld first wrote about the The Founders Visa Movement. Two weeks after Brad’s post I was at the 140 Conference in LA and I held open office hours for any entrepreneur who wanted to spend 15 minutes talking with a VC about their business.

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The Next Web introduces 12 local Startup Awards to celebrate entrepreneurship across Europe

The Next Web

Startup founders and investors across the world love The Next Web, and we love them right back. As you may have heard, we have also partnered with the European Commission to launch a prestigious event called Europioneers to identify and award Europe’s finest technology entrepreneurs. We didn’t want to leave it at that, though.

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Sneak preview, KISSmetrics (and more)

Startup Lessons Learned

Our sponsors continue to support the conference as well as deserving entrepreneurs. Our sponsors continue to support the conference as well as deserving entrepreneurs. Most of these events are free, but they do require that you RSVP. An up-to-date list of simulcast locations is always available at [link].

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Re-imagining Enterprise Applications in the Cloud

Ben's Blog

A few months ago, Aneel Bhusri offered to introduce me to one his favorite entrepreneurs. Christian grew up under a totalitarian communist government in Romania during the 1970s and 80s. Eventually, he founded his own company and completed the remarkable journey from Communist to Entrepreneur in one lifetime. —Lil’ Wayne.

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Out of the Crisis #6, helpwithcovid.com

Startup Lessons Learned

Radu Spineau is a serial entrepreneur. Highlights from the show Radu on his background and what he was doing before HelpWithCovid.com (2:53) Radu on being a builder and his experiences with YCombinator (4:04) Radu's quarantine life and his parents quarantine life in Romania. (5:45) 52:06) On the need for entrepreneurs moving forward.

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