Startup Professionals Musings
JULY 15, 2019
The challenge is to recognize and recruit that ideal partner match early with minimal cost and risk. In fact, I would broaden the definition of partner from co-founder to “business partner.” The reason is that good attributes apply equally well to “external” partners, as they do to internal partners, like a co-founder or CTO.
Startup Professionals Musings
APRIL 17, 2022
The challenge is to recognize and recruit that ideal partner match early with minimal cost and risk. In fact, I would broaden the definition of partner from co-founder to “business partner.” The reason is that good attributes apply equally well to “external” partners, as they do to internal partners, like a co-founder or CTO.
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View from Seed
APRIL 14, 2020
VCs are always founder focused no matter the market environment. But in a FOMO world, more investors are willing to take a chance on a founder that they don’t know, but seems to match some of the heuristics of other high quality founders. In a FOLD world, I think you’ll see a narrowing in strategy around their core.
Steve Blank
SEPTEMBER 3, 2014
I was driving home from the BIO conference in San Diego last month and had lots of time for a phone call with Dave, an ex student and now a founder who wanted to update me on his Customer Discovery progress. Dave was building a mobile app for matching college students who needed to move within a local area with potential local movers.
Austin Startup
OCTOBER 11, 2021
the world’s largest senior care network and technology platform which recently acquired global home care provider Home Instead , today announced it has raised $70 million in Series E funding and $300 million in debt financing. Honor Technology, Inc. , creating the most advanced ecosystem to serve the aging population around the world.”
YoungUpstarts
JANUARY 24, 2012
Founded in 2010, Las Vegas-based startup ExhibitMatch ( www.exhibitmatch.com ) hopes to solve that particular problem – it is a global online interactive bidding platform that matches trade show exhibitors with stand builders from around the world. ” Up to three vendors may respond to each RFP.
Steve Blank
APRIL 3, 2018
Some of these world-class innovators get recruited by large companies like professional athletes, with paychecks to match. It does mean that success in building a company that scales depends on finding product/market fit, enough customers, enough financing, enough great employees, distribution channels, etc. Lessons Learned.
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