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Guide to Finding a Technical Co-Founder | Vinicius Vacanti

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HIRE A PROGRAMMER - About 3 months after I left my job we finally decided we needed to do something until we could find a co-founder so we hired a programmer to do some HTML mockups. They were there for the job, not the startup. I still believe the guy writes great code but we just weren't getting anything useable out of him.

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Founders: Learning should be your top 2013 New Year’s resolution

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How to Build a Startup (EP245) by Steve Blank: You’ll learn the key steps of the Customer Development process. How to identify and engage the first customers for your product, and how to gather, evaluate and use their feedback to make your product, marketing and business model far stronger. Codecademy. Khan Academy.

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10 lessons I learned by taking the entrepreneurial Red Pill

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Nowadays I’m not a great coder, but in 12 months I learned how to rock in HTML/CSS, JS & Python. Especially because I could have used this time on marketing, sales and customer development, and actually helped our business move forward. They told me it was impossible to pick up coding.

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Where is the best place to find a rockstar developer to bring it to life?

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" => I have not bothered to put up a landing page, survey to test customer demand, or done any customer development whatsoever. "Where is the best place to find a rockstar developer to bring it to life?" Just go to a meetup or post an ad promising equity. This person does not exist.

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From Nothing To Something. How To Get There.

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However, my two initial co-founders were not technical and couldn’t contribute significantly during the initial year plus of development. This resulted in a recapitilization of the equity away from 33% each (in my favor) and then the ultimate dismissal of one of the co-founders prior to the A-round. Ev From nothing to something?

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Startup Tools

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Reply steveblank , on September 16, 2009 at 7:00 pm said: Greg, The Google Group “Lean Startup Circle&# at [link] is a wonderful repository of Customer Development/Lean Startup success and failure. It’s more reference material. Thus, these pages. I’ll add more as time goes on.

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Startup Resources

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Steve Blank on Lean Customer Development. Cheat Sheets : Equip youself with HTML/CSS cheatsheets! s helpful to find an developer tool that allows you to write html/css and renders the view in real time, so you donâ?? Mobile Tools: If you are a web developer, you donâ??t Founder Equity Issues.