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Finding Technical Cofounders Is Hard

rob.by

Finding Technical Cofounders Is Hard. Yesterday, Michael Pope posted an article titled Technical Cofounders Are a Myth. He argued that software engineers don’t finish what they start, and that you’re better off paying a technical person than partnering with one. Tuesday, August 17, 2010.

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Episode 40: Website Traffic and Online Booking with Joseph Shemesh and Ethan Anderson

Mike Michalowicz

Joseph is an Achieved CEO/CTO investor and strategic advisor. Joseph has more than 20 years of strategic, operational and senior management experience in business ranging from early stage start-ups to private equity backed assets and from mid-stage business to large turn-around operations. Our Guests. Joseph Shemesh (left).

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Should You Co-Found Your Company With a Software Development Shop (2 of 2)?

David Teten

Not surprisingly, the list above also is ranked from least to most equity stake in an investment for the investor, relative to the cash they invest. The question is: how should they be compensated when cofounding a company? equity that belongs to departed cofounders)? They’re typically pursuing a foundry/studio model.

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Upcoming NYC family office conferences: Real estate and Blockchain

David Teten

Sonnenfeldt , Chairman and Founder, Tiger 21; Mr. Mark Sotir , Co-President of Sam Zell’s Equity; Mr. Anthony Scaramucci , Founder, Skybridge Capital; Group Investments and Mr. Chetan Dube , Founder, IPsoft – the World’s largest privately held AI company. Keynote speakers: Mr. Uri Levin , Co-Founder, Waze; Mr. Michael W.

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Should You Share Equity with Consultants?

www.inc.com

Advisor. ); STARTUP. Naming a Business. Should You Share Equity with Consultants? To grow his cash-strapped start-up, Parker ended up sharing equity -- not only with employees, but also with consultants and vendors. Parker found that equity as compensation helped build loyalty to his company -- even among consultants.

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Why Startups Die

The Next Web

Andrew is the co-founder and CTO of Parse.ly , a technology startup that provides big data insights to the web’s best publishers. The other major thing Graham advises startups not to do: “other things” Namely: [D]on’t go to graduate school, and don’t start other projects. Distraction is fatal to startups.

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Smart Bear Live 8: Edwin from MeetingKing.com

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

Edwin: Correct, I fully agree and the name MeetingKing already says that my initial focus definitely was on meetings, right? So if I’m looking, MeetingKing’s obviously a brilliant name. But we’re just not going to name them as ideal. Well yeah, you could potentially find a cofounder. Jason: Exactly.