Customer Development Developer Partner Technical Cofounder 
Steve Blank
SEPTEMBER 3, 2014
My contract developers building the app aren’t very responsive. neither you nor your cofounder can code and you’re building a mobile app? He was using 3 rd parties to build his app but he had no expertise on how to manage external developers. While I have all this great feedback on my visual mockups I can’t iterate my product.
rob.by
MARCH 8, 2012
Finding Technical Cofounders Is Hard. Yesterday, Michael Pope posted an article titled Technical Cofounders Are a Myth. He argued that software engineers don’t finish what they start, and that you’re better off paying a technical person than partnering with one. Tuesday, August 17, 2010.
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Steve Blank
JULY 7, 2015
Eric was the very first practitioner of my Customer Development methodology which became the core of the the Lean methodology. He later co-founded and served as CTO of IMVU and then authored The Lean Startup. Listen to my entire chat with Eric: If you can’t hear the interview, click here. Taking My Class.
Steve Blank
DECEMBER 9, 2013
I pointed out that the “data” you gather in 10 weeks (talking to 100+ customers, partners, payers, etc.,) I used to be in startups where I was dealing with engineers designing our microprocessors or selling supercomputers to research scientists solving really interesting technical problems. My customers were 14-year old boys.
Steve Blank
MAY 29, 2011
Max and his partners interviewed and analyzed over 650 early-stage Internet startups. They also over-invest in solo founders and founding teams without technical cofounders despite indicators that show that these teams have a much lower probability of success. Technical-heavy founding teams are 3.3x Congratulations.
www.kernelmag.com
MARCH 8, 2012
The Scene Developers Nailing that elusive technical co-founder. Recently, my friend Harjeet Taggar, partner at US seed fund YCombinator, tweeted that, increasingly, the problems faced by start-ups they fund are being addressed by other start-ups. There are certainly many talented technical people out there. Yiannopoulos.
viniciusvacanti.com
SEPTEMBER 7, 2010
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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