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Do You Need to Be a Developer to Found a Web Startup?

thenetsetter.com

Are you inventing new technical solutions to a problem? If you use a piggy-back services like those mentioned above, you are simply being shielded from the technical requirements of the web by another company. In other words you are outsourcing the technical aspects of your startup.

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How to pick a co-founder

venturehacks.com

He can be technical, but he must be able to wield the tools of influence. Be especially careful with the “sales&# guy here. What you don’t know Business founders who don’t code use bad proxies for picking technical co-founders (&# 10 years with Java!&# ). Read some fun reviews of this site.

Cofounder 101
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The Playbook for Scale Up Nation

Seeing Both Sides

This post was co-authored with Omri Stern and originally appeared in Harvard Business Review. We selected this benchmark because it reflects the phase in which companies have proven product viability, achieved initial product/market fit, and are now expanding sales and growing more complex operations.