A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

Let’s people sell premium digital content online without dealing with any of the technical stuff. He might not be just because of his particular style but what he is is definitely the kind of guy that if he got behind this and explained this as a strategy, he might be able to put 1,000 in your lap. Jason: Right. Dan: Interesting.

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blog.nahurst.com

JULY 19, 2010

Nathan Hursts Blog Thoughts on Software, Technology, and Startups « Back to blog Im on the technical side of entrepreneurship in NYC. The graphic below balances the risks cofounders take with their relative contributions to help answer this question. I love programming, board games, and my wife. This doesnt have to be the case.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

“In a lot of the industries in which I ended up launching companies, there was a pre-existing profile of what a successful entrepreneur should look like—typically a young, white male with a technical, finance, or political background,” says Aguirre de Carcer. These Women Entrepreneurs Created A Fake Male Cofounder To Dodge Startup Sexism.

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View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

For most of my career, I’ve served startups and early-stage companies as an operating executive or advisor. When this dispersion of focus starts to occur more frequently, or significant parts of the organization show signs of obvious neglect, it’s definitely time to bring in help. Based on what criteria?

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Scalable Startup

MARCH 26, 2012

By definition, in the final step of making many decisions is you alone making them. Pay attention when outside mentors magically appear in your circle; I’ve met some of the best advisors at meetups and coffee shops. The Google founders surrounded themselves with a dozen moentors and advisors.

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 3, 2012

Andrew is the co-founder and CTO of Parse.ly , a technology startup that provides big data insights to the web’s best publishers. You’re trying to discover a product that will work for some market, while also being a hugely motivating space for you and your cofounders to work in for (potentially) ten years.

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The Next Web

JANUARY 26, 2014

Ohad Frankfurt is the cofounder and CEO of Swayy , a personalized content curation and management platform. As an early stage startup, there are a lot of risk factors to face before you will find success. There are a lot of reasons why an accelerator can help you reduce some of the risk factors an early stage startup has.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

One of the things I do as a founder of a later stage startup is to meet with early stage entrepreneurs to help them get their companies going. Post launch, if you gain traction, is where the business person will help take the load off of the technical folks. Then, forget everything else, VCs included, and just build.

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www.quora.com

JANUARY 16, 2011

Find Questions, Topics and People Add Question Add Question Non-Technical Co-Founders Co-Founders Technical Co-founders Finding Co-Founders Startups & "How Important Are Ideas?" Developer, engineer, CTO, or technical co-founder? Maybe, dear asker, you do not need a technical "co-founder" at all.

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reidhoffman.org

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

For early stage companies, it’s important to show that you’re on path, that you have prospects, and that you can get to your vision. Put another way, the ideal financing partner is a financing cofounder. Eric also showed deep technology capabilities, proving our technical chops. Instead, open with the investment thesis.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 24, 2011

How cofounders can collaborate without going crazy. That’s definitely a waste of time no matter who you are. Patrick: Definitely. So, my initial gut says that you’re definitely not going to want to go after the people with little money in their checking account. Cool, thanks. Patrick: Cool.

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Steve Blank

JULY 27, 2015

Steve also teaches my Lean LaunchPad course at Berkeley and Stanford, and is the cofounder of Kinetrope, a product design shop working on bringing to market devices in the area of entertainment and IoT. But it’s definitely not for long-term content, like over 10 minutes, 15 minutes. And so it’s great for walk-throughs.

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