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Finding a Technical Cofounder for Your Startup

SoCal CTO

I've recently received several emails from people looking for a technical cofounder for their startup. Before you go out looking for your Cofounder, you should also be thinking about what will motivate them as I talk about in How to Hunt Programmers for Your Startup - A Field Guide. Here's an example of that kind of email.

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A new field guide for entrepreneurs of all stripes

Startup Lessons Learned

TLDR: Brant Cooper and Patrick Vlaskovits , authors of The Entrepreneur's Guide to Customer Development are back with a new book called The Lean Entrepreneur. Since then, Brant and Patrick have been tireless advocates for the whole Lean Startup movement. Illustrations by FAKEGRIMLOCK. You can pre-order it starting today.

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Out of the Crisis #19: Revolution Foods co-founders on feeding kids and families, being parent-entrepreneurs, and scaling food security innovations

Startup Lessons Learned

Here's my conversation with the founders of Revolution Foods. I'm the co founder and Chief Impact Officer at Revolution Foods. I'm the co-founder and CEO of Revolution Foods. I co-founded Revolution Foods with Kirsten Tobey in 2006 to ensure quality food access for all children across the nation.

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I Buy Dead Magazines (the art of the intro …)

Both Sides of the Table

You can’t help but lean forward and want to hear what the next line is. He said it’s really impactful both to help the founders clarify their vision and to more effectively communicated it to others. Your wife, husband, girlfriend, sister or co-workers should be sick of hearing it. I buy dead magazines.” He’s a master.

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Silicon Beach emerges as a tech hotbed

www.usatoday.com

But most start-ups in Silicon Beach are young and lean and cant afford to provide Silicon Valley-like perks as trumpeted by Google, such as free food, pool tables and massages. "If He has hired engineers from Loyola Marymount University , CalTech, University of Southern California and UCLA , he says. Want 300 days of sun a year?"

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Out of the Crisis #3, Jen Pahlka and Raylene Yung on creating the U.S. Digital Response

Startup Lessons Learned

They co-founded it with former U.S. Jen is the founder and former executive director of Code for America. My parents and my brother live in Southern California. For episode 4 of Out of the Crisis, Jen Pahlka and Raylene Yung joined me to talk about the U.S. Digital Response. She served as the U.S.

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Out of the Crisis #20: the founders of Bitwise on the role of technology in empowering people, spreading benefits to underserved communities, and the creation of OnwardUS

Startup Lessons Learned

Jake Soberal and Irma Olguin are the founders of a company called Bitwise. Here's my conversation with the founders of Bitwise. I am the co-founder and CEO of Bitwise Industries. Irma Olguin : My name is Irma Olguin, I'm the co-founder and CEO of Bitwise Industries. So what are we going to do?

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