techcrunch.com

MARCH 8, 2012

The Trouble With Non-tech Cofounders. I want to reflect on my experience as a non-technical founder and reassess my original decision – almost two years ago – to stick to what I’m good at, and not waste time learning to code. guest author. Thursday, February 23rd, 2012.

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Reid Hoffman

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

Over the past two decades the internet has reshaped our daily lives and the world of business—so it’s not surprising that it’s transforming how companies develop talent. The leaders and disrupters we meet in Silicon Valley and around the world are distinguished by the speed at which they zip up the learning curve.

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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.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 24, 2012

The landscape has changed since Bill Gates stood atop the computing world, but this exposé is still a fascinating look into the life of one of the most driven, most powerful, and most feared men Silicon Valley has ever seen. And for all the technical parts, the emotional and psychological aspects of the job still shine through.

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davetroy.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Dave Troy: Fueled By Randomness Design, Entrepreneurship, Economics and Software home Twittervision Flickrvision About @davetroy ← Start By Taking Action A New Plan for Economic Development → In Entrepreneurial Ecosystem, Cofounders Find YOU! And I’ve promised to talk about what it takes to find cofounders.

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Steve Blank

JULY 27, 2015

Venk Shukla , president TiE Silicon Valley and general partner, Monta Vista Capital. 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. Steve Weinstein , CEO of MovieLabs.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2018

Pierce Burnette knows the meaning of “humble beginnings” and has combined her intelligence quotient (IQ), emotional intelligence (EQ), entrepreneurial spirit, and technical knowledge to forge successful careers in engineering, information technology, and education. She is committed to improving representation in Austin’s technology landscape.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 13, 2013

It was all technical. You know, the weird thing, Derek, and I should probably let you speak some time, but I was deeply technical when I went into Andersen consulting, and I got paid much less than engineers who graduated, because I had a degree in economics. Technical founder. And my specialty was computer networks.

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Steve Blank

MAY 11, 2009

Present at the Creation It was early 1991 and Apple’s software development team was hard at work on QuickTime , the first multimedia framework for a computer. So SuperMac engineering also developed video compression software, called Cinepak. I was the Senior Technical Writer for SMac from 1988-1991.

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Reid Hoffman

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

Over the past two decades the internet has reshaped our daily lives and the world of business—so it’s not surprising that it’s transforming how companies develop talent. The leaders and disrupters we meet in Silicon Valley and around the world are distinguished by the speed at which they zip up the learning curve.

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Scalable Startup

AUGUST 9, 2018

At this stage you’re essentially selling yourself and your cofounders. Pre-launch funding is pretty common in Silicon Valley, but that’s a unique case. But to get that Silicon Valley angel funding you have to be part of that social network; most of the rest of the world doesn’t have that frothy environment.

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crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2012

Questions to Ask Potential Cofounders: The Master List | Founder Dating - [link]. Why Bravo’s ‘Start-Ups: Silicon Valley’ Is Bad for Entrepreneurship - [link]. 5 things a non-technical founder can do - [link]. Just 25 Developers Grabbed 50% Of App Revenues On U.S. Recruiting Developers?

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Sophia Perl of Wisdom

JULY 18, 2011

The funny part is that I didn’t realize Eventbrite had male cofounders since Women 2.0 always spotlighted Julie Hartz, cofounder and wife of Kevin. I liked hearing the who’s who of Silicon Valley in his stories, but more importantly he had really good take aways. Keep a watch out!

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

In consumer internet, that usually means one front-end user-facing developer, one back-end server-side developer, and ultimately a business person (details will come in a later post). In Silicon Valley, rock climbing’s a current hot spot for startup folks. To be blunt, find a way to move to Silicon Valley.

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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?" " Web Development Startups Solo Founders I am a creative guy with a startup idea. However, I do spend a lot of time daydreaming.

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steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

interactions, widgets, effects Django – high-level Python framework Cappuccino – open source framework for app development Kodingen – cloud development environment, code editor, hosting service, collaboration platform. Lighthouse – Issue Tracking Tool.

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Scalable Startup

JUNE 21, 2011

Over the past few weeks I’ve been casually looking for someone to work with, to develop and market a suite of mobile applications ( iOS , Android ) for the entertainment world. If you carry this one step further – actually being involved in developing and deploying mobile apps, it’s even more compelling.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

I don’t know any developers. 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. Especially if you aren’t from around Silicon Valley.

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siliconflorist.com

DECEMBER 22, 2012

Last year around the time PIE was starting, David Cohen , cofounder of TechStars , shared the TechStars Mentor Manifesto. 13) Portland startups at an “Early Stage”: Start-Ups: Silicon Valley, it ain’t (and that’s awesome) (0). Android Developer. Android / iOS / Python / Django Developer.

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David Teten

JANUARY 28, 2019

I’ve listed the most common levers that universities use below, with some live examples from Yale: Strong technical departments : Computer Science , Math , Physics. Or Yale could develop a legaltech incubation program and to help improve lawyers’ productivity, a profession whose primary tech tool is Microsoft Word.

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www.paulgraham.com

APRIL 28, 2010

Be Careful with Cofounders This was the surprise mentioned by the most founders. There weretwo types of responses: that you have to be careful who you pickas a cofounder, and that you have to work hard to maintain yourrelationship. The lesson: dontpick cofounders who will flake. These were the biggest: 1.

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Seeing Both Sides

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

Are Israeli companies on the verge of developing a repeatable playbook to scale their companies and become market leaders, not just acquisition fodder for the Silicon Valley giants? Although the technical team often remains in Israel, many of the executives interviewed recommend departing for the U.S. We think so.

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www.paulgraham.com

AUGUST 1, 2008

We think of the techniques were developing for dealing with large numbers of startups as like software. As the volume of startups increases, big companies will start to develop standardized procedures that make acquisitions little more work than hiring someone. silicon valleys. Weve done the same thing ourselves.

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reidhoffman.org

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

In 2005, we launched all three products — in the order of listings, subscriptions, then ads — eventually discovering two surprising insights: The principal market for our listings and subscriptions products became the recruiting space, instead of business development and networking. Understand where analogies apply and where they do not.

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