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Finding a Technical Cofounder for Your Startup

SoCal CTO

"I'm looking for a partner / cofounder who can not only head the technical aspects and build a working model of the site, but someone with the connections to put a great development team together when we need it. Make sure you go through the 32 Questions Developers May Have Forgot to Ask a Startup Founder. Find out who is good.

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Startup Funding – A Comprehensive Guide for Entrepreneurs

ReadWriteStart

Once the order is fulfilled and paid for, the funds can be paid back. ? Research and development. In very few specific cases, depending on the nature of the business, the business model might demand a considerable gestation period or extensive research and development. Both of which are expensive and time-consuming. Crowdfunding.

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Venture Pitch: A View From the Trenches

Austin Startup

On October 14th Tech Ranch will be hosting a Venture Pitch event, where 10 entrepreneurs will be pitching their idea to a panel including a potential customer, a proven entrepreneur, and a seasoned investor. We asked him to tell about the Venture Forth program and his preparation for pitching. Boy was I wrong.

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Twitter Link Roundup #146 – Small Business, Social Media, Design, Copywriting, Marketing And More

crowdSPRING Blog

Small Business Newsletter: 7 habits of successful entrepreneurs, lean marketing and more – [link]. Good reminder about the mechanics of a solid elevator pitch … Pyramid Pitching – [link]. Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template to use today) – [link].

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Finding Technical Cofounders Is Hard

rob.by

A business person may have equal or more valuable skills than a software person, but they are not universally understood in the simplistic way that software people’s skills are. Ask anybody what a software developer does and they can give you the one-sentence “makes software” answer.