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Building the right founding team

The Equity Kicker

There’s currently a placeholder site which explains what The Path Forward is (a guide for ecommerce and marketplace entrepreneurs in their first year). – Don’t compromise on quality for co-founders and other permanent decisions. And that includes the choice of co-founder.

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How to Go From Google Engineer to First-Time CTO

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Today, he’s the co-founder and CTO of Artillery , bringing console-quality gaming to the web browser. And even though I was the tech guy surrounded by capable business-focused co-founders, I knew that building a successful company was going to start with a lot more than a command line. Author: Ian Langworth.

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Lean Startup Conference Speaker Ann Miura-Ko on being a founder, representation, and the future.

Startup Lessons Learned

She’s also a founding member of All Raise, a non-profit committed to improving diversity in both funders and founders. We talked with her about her teaching position at Stanford, how she thinks about the future, and how she makes investment decisions. She always told me, “That's not where you’re supposed to make friends anyway.

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LinkedIn's Series B Pitch to Greylock: Pitch Advice for Entrepreneurs

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This gave me an idea: I could help many more entrepreneurs by making the deck available not just to the Greylock network of entrepreneurs, but to everyone. If you don’t have some sense of their points of view, your likelihood of making the pitch go well is more random. Today, I share the Series B deck with you, too. And why is it new?