YoungUpstarts

JUNE 3, 2015

Job Forecast Study ranks sales jobs as the number one job employers are currently looking to fill, ranking 10% higher than technical positions. Direct one-to-one interaction and conversations are still absolutely critical and necessary. In addition, the 2015 CareerBuilder.com U.S. Outbound sales needed to drive new business.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 13, 2013

I started as a programmer, and then a database designer, and then a project manager, and I led conversion teams. It was all technical. She was paid much more than me and no matter how technical I was, they saw me as the business guy because I graduated with a degree in economics. Technical founder. Is there a CEO?”

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David Teten

OCTOBER 1, 2015

I’ve talked with a number of software development shops who are eager to get into the business of cofounding companies, i.e., getting product revenue and equity instead of just consulting revenue. The question is: how should they be compensated when cofounding a company? equity that belongs to departed cofounders)?

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Software Developers Software Development Software Review Technical Cofounder 60

The Next Web

OCTOBER 18, 2013

If you don’t act fast, your believers will go away, so we wanted to get to $10,000 monthly recurring revenue as fast as possible. 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.

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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. So on the one hand.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

NOVEMBER 21, 2011

How cofounders can collaborate without going crazy. I was going to mention sales force as well but I thought I’d save that for the latter part of the conversation because talking [inaudible] bridge would be a bit of a departure. We would rather chase revenue. Of course you should chase revenue. Jason: Oh, good.

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Widget Cofounder Technical Review Software Review 204

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. If you’ve accomplished very little and are still a few years away from revenue, VCs aren’t going to invest in your deal. Horrifying, but true. Pitching an idea. It’s simply too risky.

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Venture Capital Technical Cofounder Milwaukee Valuation 180

Hearpreneur

JANUARY 7, 2017

The conversations usually go down the same path, ending with a you’re how old? At the same time it seemed that whenever I would have a conversation with a friend, family member, colleague, manager, executive–you name it!–about 5 – Old Man Strength. Image Credit: Joe Battisto. or can you make a living at that?

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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. Conversely, founding CEOs are excellent at finding, but not maximizing, product cycles. Siebel—Tom Siebel. Sony—Akio Morita.

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Technical Review Cofounder Technical Cofounder Software Review 78

techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

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. Ron Oh and another factor to bring reality to the table - Sometimes you find out your cofounders suck.

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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

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 24, 2011

How cofounders can collaborate without going crazy. So be sure to make a free user account and participate in the offline conversation there. As we wait for our first callers to come on board, I wanted to start with a question from a conversation that Bob and I with Merck Coulbrougiff [sounds like] from Beta List [SP].

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 16, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Friday, March 16, 2007 F2F Still Matters Kathy Sierra has a great post today: Face-to-Face Trumps Twitter, Blogs, Podcasts, Video. and she provides this picture: It shows that while we slowly approach real-time, realistic virtual conversations, it still isnt quite the same thing as being there.

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Seeing Both Sides

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

To answer these questions, we built a database of 112 Israeli companies founded between 1996 and 2013 that have met or exceeded $20 million in revenue. Although the technical team often remains in Israel, many of the executives interviewed recommend departing for the U.S. What are the challenges and lessons of scaling up?

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 13, 2015

This is why many of the best West Coast sales reps focus on establishing a presence in the community and becoming trusted advisors to their clients. They need to educate the candidate about the opportunity, frame the conversation around their career, and, in the candidate’s eyes, become a trusted advisor.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

link] Sean Murphy Two other events that are good for serious conversation among entrepreneurs are Bootstrapper Breakfast [link] and Hackers and Founders [link] Eli One of my professors told me to get an MBA to meet a co-founder. Expand ONLY when you have generated enough revenue to keep you alive 2 years from today. Simple as that.

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Cofounder Founder Silicon Valley Technical Cofounder 66