A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

MARCH 11, 2014

So conversion rate percentage, of course it can always be higher and we’re doing a lot of stuff to make that higher, but it’s in line with other applications. Jason: Yeah, one percent conversion rate is pretty normal. I’ve had some very good conversations with a large insurance company.

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 18, 2013

Hire a designer on day one. Great design maximizes the impact of technical innovation. Search for your non-technical cofounder. Because I’m not technical, we had a huge focus on sales and customer success from day one. Facilitate conversations. It’s efficient without too much back and forth. What’s up next?

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 3, 2009

The same has been true of an unfortunate number of startups, they manage to generate a lot of hype, raise a lot of money, and sometimes make some of their investors, employees, or founders rich. Ive been there: is it me or my cofounder thats crazy? They dont really create value. How can we tell the difference? What if its both of you?

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Lean San Francisco Continuous Deployment Cofounder 60

Hearpreneur

JANUARY 7, 2017

The conversations usually go down the same path, ending with a you’re how old? I was driven by my desire for freedom and that’s what I got; along with an amazing opportunity to help transform my employees’ and my client’s lives through homeownership and real estate. 5 – Old Man Strength.

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Entrepreneur LLC Cofounder Green 91

YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 27, 2013

If a VC asks his advisors what they think of your deal and they dislike it, it’s dead. In both cases, a high valuation can end a conversation. In an angel meeting of 25 people, if one angel says something less than positive about your deal, the excitement drops, and the deal can die right there on the boardroom table. Pitching an idea.

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Venture Capital Technical Cofounder Milwaukee Valuation 180

www.paulgraham.com

APRIL 28, 2010

Be Careful with Cofounders This was the surprise mentioned by the most founders. There weretwo types of responses: that you have to be careful who you pickas a cofounder, and that you have to work hard to maintain yourrelationship. The lesson: dontpick cofounders who will flake. These were the biggest: 1.

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Ben's Blog

APRIL 28, 2010

VMware—Diane Greene. (*) While not technically cofounders, Andy Grove and Thomas Watson, Sr. Andy Grove was Intel’s third employee (after the two cofounders Robert Noyce and Gordon E. Salmon points out that “not a single one of the 12 [candidates] is a CEO who was hired to run a company by its board of directors.”.

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Technical Review Cofounder Technical Cofounder Software Review 78

www.quora.com

JANUARY 16, 2011

Find Questions, Topics and People Add Question Add Question Non-Technical Co-Founders Co-Founders Technical Co-founders Finding Co-Founders Startups & "How Important Are Ideas?" Developer, engineer, CTO, or technical co-founder? Maybe, dear asker, you do not need a technical "co-founder" at all.

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Developer Technical Review Cofounder Technical Cofounder 42

techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Inevitably, the excuses begin: I need to hire people to build the product. Post launch, if you gain traction, is where the business person will help take the load off of the technical folks. The business person can take all the meetings while the technical folks work on making the product better. I don’t know any developers.

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K9 Ventures

MAY 6, 2015

In some cases I’ve heard investors say that “if you can’t convince someone to be your co-founder, how will you convince investors or employees” — or something like that. In some cases the “co-founder” title is used to attract people to join the company in an increasingly competitive hiring environment. Have the conversation.

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Cofounder Founder Silicon Valley Technical Cofounder 48

www.paulgraham.com

AUGUST 1, 2008

We could hire employees, but we want to be forced to figure out how to scale investing. As the volume of startups increases, big companies will start to develop standardized procedures that make acquisitions little more work than hiring someone. At Y Combinator we still only have four people, so we try to standardize everything.

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Web Startup Silicon Valley Technical Review 54

Seeing Both Sides

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

Eighty-two percent have global offices, and yet 91% are still run by Israeli CEOs, as opposed to foreign executives hired from the outside. In the old model of Israeli startups, many Israeli executive teams would hire a vice president of sales in the U.S. American VCs are critical. The founders have started companies before.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2018

Pierce Burnette knows the meaning of “humble beginnings” and has combined her intelligence quotient (IQ), emotional intelligence (EQ), entrepreneurial spirit, and technical knowledge to forge successful careers in engineering, information technology, and education. She is committed to improving representation in Austin’s technology landscape.

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steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

signup, upgrade, trial pricing Zuora – online subscription management FeeFighters – find the cheapest credit card processors HealPay – Collections made easy Customer Support Tender – support, knowledgebase tool for your site GetSatisfaction - conversations between companies / customers.

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