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Why Founders Should Know How to Code

Steve Blank

As he was learning from potential customers and providers he would ask, “What if we could have an app that allowed you to schedule low cost moves?” My contract developers building the app aren’t very responsive. neither you nor your cofounder can code and you’re building a mobile app? This was a great call.

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Nailing that elusive technical co-founder

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The Scene Developers Nailing that elusive technical co-founder. in hosting costs for an app with nearly a million registered users that serves several million requests a month. But if tools are plentiful and costs resemble rounding errors, what stands in the way of the would-be entrepreneur of 2012? Yiannopoulos.

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Should You Co-Found Your Company With a Software Development Shop (2 of 2)?

David Teten

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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Guide to Finding a Technical Co-Founder | Vinicius Vacanti

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Home About Contact Me How To Make It as a First-Time Entrepreneur Vinicius Vacanti Guide to Finding a Technical Co-Founder September 7, 2010 | View Comments Steve Job's Technical Co-Founder “I’ve got this HUGE idea. I just need to find a technical co-founder.&# I was in this situation and we barely escaped.

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Smart Bear Live 8: Edwin from MeetingKing.com

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

They have many, many man-years of development and customer development in them. Well yeah, you could potentially find a cofounder. There’s a third alternative, and that’s a cofounder. Edwin: You get a cofounder onboard. Reid Hoffman has some interesting stuff about cofounders.

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Founder's Dilemmas: Equity Splits

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With their confidence in their startup and themselves, their passion for their work and their mission, and their desire not to harm the fragile dynamic within the nascent founding team, cofounders tend to plan for the best that can happen. But such a best-case approach is hazardous. Uncertainties abound.

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SuperMac War Story 10: The Video Spigot « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

In less than a month they designed a low-cost video-capture board that plugged into the Mac and allowed you to connect a video camera and VCR. The Cinepak codec was written by the engineer who would become my cofounder at Rocket Science Games.) I was the Senior Technical Writer for SMac from 1988-1991.

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