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Ardent 1: Supercomputers Get Personal

Steve Blank

As the conversation began to get down to how much stock and salary we could offer van Dam, we left the barber to finish his work and went to a payphone to call our CEO to confirm the deal. Wasn’t he a CTO or something? (He We were painting a picture of hypertext on every desktop computer. The response from across the country?

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Finding Technical Cofounders Is Hard

rob.by

They can easily get great benefits and a six figure salary. Now, however, it really is time to have some dedicated partners on this project to build the vision, and I’m starting the search for technical co-founder again. If yes, hire a contract developer. Tuesday, August 17, 2010 e.p.c.

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From Nothing To Something. How To Get There.

techcrunch.com

Inevitably, the excuses begin: I need to hire people to build the product. I don’t know any developers. 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. I need money for the servers.