Customer Development Marketing Restful 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? I offered that if Dave wanted to be the founding CEO then he was going to have to do two things: first, create a reality distortion field large enough to attract a technical co-founder.
Steve Blank
MAY 29, 2011
But he left to work on what he told me he came to do - crack the innovation code of Silicon Valley and share it with the rest of the world. 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.
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Steve Blank
JUNE 11, 2009
Posted on June 11, 2009 by steveblank When my students ask me about whether they should be a founder or cofounder of a startup I ask them to take a walk around the block and ask themselves: Are you comfortable with: Chaos – startups are disorganized Uncertainty – startups never go per plan Are you: Resilient – at times you will fail – badly.
Startup Lessons Learned
OCTOBER 4, 2008
So if youre new, consider not paying any attention to the rest of this post, and just diving into the archives, if you havent already. Maybe youd like to start with The lean startup , How to listen to customers , or What does a startup CTO actually do? ) October 13, 2008 6:47 PM Luke G said. Eric, love the blog. Thanks much.
Steve Blank
MAY 11, 2009
They had this great architecture, and Apple had figured out to get movies into their own computers for a demo, but for the rest of us there was no physical device that allowed an average consumer to plug a video camera or VCR into and get video into a Mac. But the rest of the management team really skeptical. Little did we know.
A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks
MARCH 11, 2014
On the other hand, it’s a whole universe and you’d need an interesting perspective on why you should go attack that market and face all that competition and noise and everything that’s in the market. So when you’re thinking about marketing positioning to me, that side of it is the interesting side of it.
techcrunch.com
OCTOBER 23, 2010
Only eBay was founded by a single individual – the rest were team efforts. 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. link] steve Interesting article.
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