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Technical Co-Founders Are A Myth

blog.captainrecruiter.com

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. Captain Recruiter.

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Product Manager Entrepreneur Mark Geller

SoCal CTO

In junior high and high school, I did a bunch of programming, mostly self-taught. From there, I became the first non-founder employee at an e-commerce startup called BITSource, which was the first electronic software distributor delivering electronic volume software licenses to corporations. Tell me a bit about the Founder's Institute.

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Twitter Link Roundup #156 – Small Business, Social Media, Design, Copywriting, Marketing And More

crowdSPRING Blog

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 Difference Between Stealth Mode and Quiet Mode – [link]. Your Brand is What You Do – [link]. Just got acquired?

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How to Scale Support of Portfolio Companies

David Teten

Large private equity funds like KKR can afford to pursue a consulting model ( Capstone ), typically with associated fees, but that doesn’t normally make economic sense for a VC. Effectively, we are a market maker between our portfolio companies and the late-stage VCs and large enterprises which are our co-investors.

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Why you shouldn’t keep your startup idea secret

cdixon.org

Great tips, fully inline with “Four Steps to the Epiphany” Also reminds me of Dharmesh’s “Stealth Mode, Schmealth Mode” — [link]. Entrepreneur Chris Dixon posts on why its really not that dangerous to share your super-stealth idea with other people: There are [.]. link] Stealth mode is back.

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How to Evaluate an Offer from a Startup Incubator

The Startup Lawyer

But before your startup signs up and cashes that $[XX,000] check, your startup’s co-founders should sit down and evaluate the incubator’s offer. If an incubator offers your startup $25,000 in exchange for 6% equity, the pre-money valuation is a whopping $391,667. Other incubators may want to set up an option pool.

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Top 30 Startup Technology and Product Posts for September 2010

SoCal CTO

want to sidestep the argument about whether or not it's good to be " stealth " or not, and work with the assumption that if you've purchased the domain name, you're going to put up some sort of website. previously explained that it usually requires some equity, but here is some more step by step practical advice. Let's recap.