Cofounder Search Seed Money Technology 
Steve Blank
JUNE 11, 2009
Posted on June 11, 2009 by steveblank When my students ask me about whether they should be a founder or cofounder of a startup I ask them to take a walk around the block and ask themselves: Are you comfortable with: Chaos – startups are disorganized Uncertainty – startups never go per plan Are you: Resilient – at times you will fail – badly.
Steve Blank
APRIL 8, 2010
He and his co-founder were both PhD’s in applied math who believe they can make some serious inroads on next generation search. I thought his technology was was potentially a killer app. We thought we’d take our plan and go raise seed money. We can’t raise money knowing our plan is wrong.”.
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Both Sides of the Table
JUNE 28, 2010
This includes seed funding Automattic (who produce WordPress, the blog I use for this website) and investing in formspring.me, stickybits, Thing Labs (producer of Brizzly), KissMetrics and many others including Quantcast. So how is Mike able to do this at a time where others have warned against taking seed money from VC funds?
cdixon.org
SEPTEMBER 17, 2011
I would think you would want to at least be cautious in discussing your virtualization idea with someone at VMware, your search idea with Google, etc. Great points, though your bio does read “Personal investor in early-stage technology companies, including … a handful of other startups that are still in stealth mode!”
crowdSPRING Blog
APRIL 23, 2018
Web search existed before Google. While it’s true that you sometimes need to spend money to make money, the amount of money you need to spend is where things get murkier. The highway of new ventures is littered with the remnants of businesses that started with tons of seed money but ran out with little to show for it.
www.paulgraham.com
OCTOBER 23, 2010
And since a startup thatsucceeds ordinarily makes its founders rich, that implies gettingrich is doable too. Googles plan, for example, was simply to create a search site thatdidnt suck. They had three new ideas: index more of the Web, uselinks to rank search results, and have clean, simple web pages withunintrusive keyword-based ads.
techcrunch.com
OCTOBER 23, 2010
One of the things I do as a founder of a later stage startup is to meet with early stage entrepreneurs to help them get their companies going. In later posts I’m going to get into more detail on specific topics like hiring, raising money, what types of ideas have the potential to get big, finding your founders, and the like.
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