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Quattro Development Co-Founders Share Tips for Overcoming Mishaps in Real Estate Development

The Startup Magazine

The path to success is far from easy, which is a lesson Quattro Development’s founders, Rob Walters and Mike Liyeos, know all too well. Instead of looking at their failures as setbacks, Walters and Liyeos credit their present success to their ability to bounce back from challenges. Maybe getting some references,” Walters says.

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[INTERVIEW] Mark Attanasio, Toronto Financial Services Executive, Managing Partner Of Hillcrest Merchant Partners

YoungUpstarts

It’s taken the Toronto executive from the world of Big 3 Accounting (as a CPA with PricewaterhouseCoopers in his early career) to Investment Banking(National Bank Financial) and capital markets (co-founding Eight Capital after leading the management buyout of Dundee Capital Markets). Dealing with the unknown can also be daunting.

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Neko Health: Spotify CEO’s Medical Startup Raises €60 Million in Funding

ReadWriteStart

Recently, the medical diagnostics company Neko Health, which was co-founded by Daniel Ek, CEO of Spotify, was successful in acquiring €60 million ($65.4 Dermatologists are specifically hired to review the skin images captured by the 3D scanner, and there is always a doctor present to provide qualified medical judgments.

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Finding Technical Cofounders Is Hard

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Finding Technical Cofounders Is Hard. Yesterday, Michael Pope posted an article titled Technical Cofounders Are a Myth. He argued that software engineers don’t finish what they start, and that you’re better off paying a technical person than partnering with one. Tuesday, August 17, 2010.

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Need a Technical Co-founder? Hire a Product Design Lead First

This is going to be BIG.

Every business person with a dollar and a dream these days thinks they’re a technical co-founder away from interweb stardom. That’s something that a business founder might have some ideas about, but it really takes a product manager to weigh resource constraints, internal input, customer demands, etc. It just works.

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Nailing that elusive technical co-founder

www.kernelmag.com

Presented by. The Scene Developers Nailing that elusive technical co-founder. Recently, my friend Harjeet Taggar, partner at US seed fund YCombinator, tweeted that, increasingly, the problems faced by start-ups they fund are being addressed by other start-ups. New technology for enquiring minds. Thursday, 8 March 2012.

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The Power of Getting the Band Back Together

Both Sides of the Table

Our founder, Yves Sisteron, was my mentor and board member at my first startup. My other partner, Steven Dietz, was on the board of my second company. Stuart was a co-founder at my first startup company and ended up running global operations. Sometimes life presents that opportunity, sometimes it does not.

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