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Finding a Technical Cofounder

bizthoughts.mikelee.org

BizThoughts Thoughts about business, technology, the web & entrepreneurship About Booklist Contact Nov 15 2011 Finding a Technical Cofounder By Mike Lee Categories: Entrepreneurship , Leadership Since I have a technical background, I get about one offer a month to join some engineering team, or to be a technical cofounder.

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How To Predict The Future

Feld Thoughts

By day he works on web and social media for HP. In the mid-1990s, a good friend of mine, Gene Kim (founder of Tripwire and author of When IT Fails: A Business Novel ) and I were in graduate school together in the Computer Science program at the University of Arizona. Why It Works Part Two: Crowdsourcing. But I digress…).

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The Lean Startup Workshop - now an O'Reilly Master Class

Startup Lessons Learned

Twitter about it or post it to a social media site? ► August (2) SXSW Case Study: SlideShare goes freemium ► July (4) Case Study: kaChing, Anatomy of a Pivot Some IPO speculation Founder personalities and the “first-class man&# th. Would you be willing to link to the Master Class info page from your blog?

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Marching through quicksand

Startup Lessons Learned

Mass blasts of information are ineffective, because the broadcast channels are suffering from information overload (even in social media). I totally agree and I'd like to add Gary Vaynerchuk's relevant talk about building personal brands in the social media landscape. August 24, 2009 2:17 PM Norbert Mocsnik said.

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Case Study: SlideShare goes freemium

Startup Lessons Learned

Rashmi Sinha, co-founder and CEO of SlideShare , describes an early version of the analytics package that’s part of the Pro accounts the company announced today. “Individuals and small companies wanted analytics, they wanted to know what was happening in social media [for their content], they wanted ad removal and lead gen.

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This Week in VC Episode 6 with @Jason Calacanis: Best One Yet

Both Sides of the Table

StackOverflow – We both have a love fest for Joel Spolsky who also co-founded Fog Creek Software. SocialVibe – Social media monetization platform that benefits non-profit organizations and social causes. Swipely – Blippy competitor founded by TellMe founder, Angus Davis, in Fall 2009.

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AutoGPT is Generative AI goal seeking

VC Cafe

These systems feed the AI’s outputs back into themselves, creating a program that can run semi-autonomously with an overarching goal Gizmodo Examples of AutoGPT implementations AutoGPT is merely one month old, but there’s been a number of use cases shared on social media that showcase its potential.