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How to pick a co-founder

venturehacks.com

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. One founder companies can work, against the odds (hello, Mark Zuckerberg).

Cofounder 101
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Never say “no,” but rarely say “yes.”

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

They had just completed a new product written in Java and it was broken on a Mac, and could I help? Java was new and known to be full of bugs, and anyway I was a C/C++ kind of guy, and I didn’t want to get involved in an academic fad language like Java. “Yes&# if it means one of the co-founders can quit her day-job.

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boldstart in 2017, enterprise tech in 2018

BeyondVC

2017 was another year of growing, learning, investing and partnering with amazing founders. Once again, we are grateful to have the opportunity to work with so many amazing founders, advisors, co-investors, and other collaborators to bring the boldstart family together. 2017 Recap. 2 exits including yhat (sold to Alteryx?—?AYX

Cloud 60
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Coffee vs. beer: Which drink makes you more creative?

The Next Web

Mikael Cho is the co-founder of ooomf , a network that connects short-term software projects with handpicked developers and designers. Every coffee drinker is familiar with the feelings after drinking a fresh cup of java. Mikael writes about psychology, startups, and product marketing over on the ooomf blog.

Java 168
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Out of the Crisis #26: Brian Armstrong of Coinbase on cryptocurrency, being mission-oriented, and institution building

Startup Lessons Learned

Just before the IPO, I had a far-reaching conversation with co-founder and CEO Brian Armstrong as he approached this major milestone for the company he co-founded back in 2012. I'm the co-founder and CEO of Coinbase. It's one of those things that founders can do sometimes where other employees are afraid to do it.

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Would you rather be an alpha developer or an enterprise developer?

The Next Web

Sinclair Schuller is the CEO and co-founder of Apprenda. One codes in Ruby and Python while the other uses.Net and Java. Each campus relied on this technology to literally keep supplies coming in the door and manage finances. Why are the so-called “alpha developers” all the rage right now?

Developer 146
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Fastest Growing And Fading IT Skills In The Market

YoungUpstarts

by Saurabh Hooda, co-founder of Hackr.io . What’s still finding its relevance in the industry is C, C++ and Java. Saurabh Hooda has worked globally for telecom and finance giants in various capacities. The job market has become a quickly changing playground, highly influenced by the technological advances.