Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 18, 2018

Thus I was happily surprised when I found the classic book, “ The Tech Entrepreneur’s Survival Guide ,” by Bernd Schoner, PhD, and cofounder of ThingMagic, which leans heavily on the people side of the equation. You need to have a technical genius on the team to get your startup product off the ground. The sales professional.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 14, 2017

by Eliot Burdett, co-founder and CEO of Peak Sales Recruiting , and author of “ Sales Recruiting 2.0: How to Find Top Performing Sales People, Fast “ Diversity in the workplace has been an issue since the civil war. The good news is that the time has finally come.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 13, 2015

Thus I was happy to see a recent book, “ The Tech Entrepreneur’s Survival Guide ,” by Bernd Schoner, PhD, and cofounder of ThingMagic, which leans heavily on the people side of the equation. You need to have a technical genius on the team to get your startup product off the ground. The sales professional. The trusted leader.

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rob.by

MARCH 8, 2012

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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ryanwaggoner.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Home About Me My Work Hire Me Contact Subscribe How to find a technical cofounder 09.10.10 These “startups&# are almost always mostly-non-technical founders offering 1-2% premoney for a “lead developer&# position. And if you had the fourth one, you could just hire developers, so what’s left?

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Hunter Walker

DECEMBER 13, 2020

A hire or two that you should have been able to close won’t join. Sales is just storytelling with a desired outcome at the end of the story. Can your lack of interest or skill in “selling” be counter-balanced by a cofounder or team that’s great at it? And what type of ‘sales’ you’ll mostly be doing. Yes and No.

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www.virtuosimedia.com

MARCH 8, 2012

Home ▶ Businesses ▶ Startup Business Advice ▶ Current Page How To Find A Technical Cofounder For Your Online Business Idea. This article should also serve as a starting guide for programmers who are approached about becoming technical co-founders. Before You Pitch To A Technical Cofounder.

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techcrunch.com

MARCH 8, 2012

The Trouble With Non-tech Cofounders. This is a guest post by Scott Allison, CEO and founder of Teamly.com. 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.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 18, 2012

However, they tend to be extremely difficult to navigate especially if you do not have a cofounder from and/or experience in that country. Hence, a Singaporean founder will find it easier to execute in the 3rd key market that is the MENASSEA region (Middle East, North Africa and South/Southeast Asia). MENASSEA includes countries below.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 10, 2017

Before graduating, I decided to forgo the finance path and instead dove into engineering and later sales and product management roles at VersaSuite (health IT) in Austin. But we got serious in early 2016 when we developed deep conviction around the immense technical vision of Ethereum. PPPS, we’re also hiring a blockchain engineer.

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blog.launchbit.com

MARCH 8, 2012

cofounders. technical cofounder. Why you can(t) recruit a technical cofounder. We know, however, that at some point, especially if you yourself are not technically-savvy, there will be a time where getting some technical expertise on the team is essential to continue progressing. Viewed times.

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 10, 2013

Two more entrepreneurial ventures later, Gleb cofounded online backup provider Backblaze to help consumers affordably, automatically, and safely back up their data. What are the pros and cons of starting a business alone versus with cofounders? How many founders are too many? Hire everyone you need as an employee.

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View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

This is a guest post from Stephano Kim , former co-founder of Web 1.0 Many startup CEOs hire COOs or launch companies with a co-founder carrying the title. When should founders hire one? For most of my career, I’ve served startups and early-stage companies as an operating executive or advisor.

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thenetsetter.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Even less-obvious founders like the internet media personality and Digg founder Kevin Rose actually began in computer science. Are you inventing new technical solutions to a problem? In the cases of all the founders I just mentioned the answer was yes. Hiring developers has a bunch of new factors to throw into the mix.

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Rob Go

JUNE 10, 2013

Write code, talk to users, and build the company (hire the best people you can find, get the culture right, fundraise, close sales, etc.) Most other things that founders do are a waste of time. For some reason most founders are really bad at this one. Hire slow; fire fast. Hire friends and friends of friends.

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The Startup Toolkit

JUNE 27, 2016

My dad used to say that the founder is the janitor. For months, his ex-cofounder has been actively undermining the confidence of his remaining team. Once they work the growth rate back up (they paused growth to fix activation & retention), either the current team will get re-engaged or he’ll be able to hire a new team.

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clicksend.wordpress.com

OCTOBER 26, 2010

The number two thing is lack of a technical co-founder. Partner with a Programmer After they have their big idea, most non-technical founders set forth to find an engineer to form a partnership. The fact is the technical co-founder will be doing more work at the start.

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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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www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Sales & Marketing | Wednesdays. Advisor. ); STARTUP. SALES & MARKETING. Back in 1997, Randy Parker was staring at a blank whiteboard, wondering where hed find the money to hire the employees and consultants he needed to build his new product. "We Chip Morse , cofounder and partner with Morse, Barnes-Brown & Pendleton P.C.,

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 6, 2013

If you are a young startup founder, how do you find that CEO or other executive for your “dream team” to close on funding or complement your skills to kick start your company? Also, trusted advisors and experienced investors should be polled for good candidates. A great hire can make a company, but a single bad one can break it.

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 18, 2013

Anthony Bosschem is the founder and head of Darwin Analytics. Hire a designer on day one. Great design maximizes the impact of technical innovation. Search for your non-technical cofounder. Because I’m not technical, we had a huge focus on sales and customer success from day one.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

MARCH 11, 2014

Listen to this episode if you want to hear about a founder who has a product and users and paying customers … and is trying to figure out how to take his company to the next level and grow faster. And I really believe I can do, on the sales part, so much more if I have additional people. Jason: Yeah. I already write agendas.

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venturehacks.com

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

SUPPORTED BY Products Archives @venturehacks Books AngelList About RSS How to pick a co-founder by Naval Ravikant on November 12th, 2009 Update : Also see our 40-minute interview on this topic. Picking a co-founder is your most important decision. One founder companies can work, against the odds (hello, Mark Zuckerberg).

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 7, 2017

I am the founder/coach of Never Settle Coaching, LLC a coaching business. When I began practicing law I was hired by a firm where billable hours and collected fees were the only considerations for advancement. Soon, I had more work than I could handle, and had to hire another attorney and staff member. Image Credit: Nancy D.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 21, 2014

What about hiring, taxes, llcs, operations, scaling? “Begin with the end in mind or risk being side tracked” Advice from James Griffith, Co-founder of Mous. Advice from Samantha Strom, Co-founder of Hazel Lane. Get a technical co-founder. Getting overwhelmed by the big picture.

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Ben's Blog

APRIL 28, 2010

In this post, I describe why we prefer to fund companies whose founder will run the company as its CEO. As we looked at the history of great technology companies, we discovered that founders ran an overwhelming majority of them for a very long time, including: Acer—Stan Shih. Siebel—Tom Siebel. Sony—Akio Morita. Sun—Scott McNeely.

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www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

After a thorough analysis of those 32 start-up post-mortems, we have determined the common reasons founders gave to compile this list of the top 20 ways to have your startup fail. Work life balance is not something that startup founders often get and so the risk of burning out is high. 13 – Disharmony with Investors/Co-founders.

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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. Rockstar v.

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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. Inevitably, the excuses begin: I need to hire people to build the product. Post launch, if you gain traction, is where the business person will help take the load off of the technical folks.

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Seeing Both Sides

AUGUST 16, 2012

Chatting with CEO and cofounder Kaufer this week, I was reminded of the fact that the company started with a very different business model in mind. TripAdvisor, in effect, was a model lean start-up with an engineering-driven, product-focused founder. Suddenly, everything began to (literally) click. and EBITDA margins are 47%.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

NOVEMBER 21, 2011

How cofounders can collaborate without going crazy. There are things you can get for sales force if you use salesforce.com. So, for example, if you’re in a company with a thousand sales people, using salesforce, I also guarantee you they are not using Gmail. There are Microsoft outlook addo-ns that do exactly like this.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 11, 2010

On the other extreme, modern web-based applications face almost no technical risk, and are governed by high market uncertainty. Eric) In a bar in Amsterdam in 2005, my two cofounders and I came to the sad conclusion that startup we tried to built for two years was doomed. My co-founders decided startup life wasn't for them.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 9, 2009

So instead of having sales, marketing, and business development, we have a problem team implementing customer development. sachinrekhi : "Visionary customers are as smart if not smarter then the founders" #leanstartup Theres no skipping the chasm. MeganMurray : "Behind every technical problem is a human problem.

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Seeing Both Sides

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

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. The founders have started companies before. More recently, Israeli founders are themselves moving to the U.S.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 13, 2015

by Eliot Burdett, co-founder and CEO of Peak Sales Recruiting. What may come as a surprise, however, is that these differences have an important impact on sales recruiting efforts. Here are 3 secrets when sales recruiting in New York vs. San Francisco: 1. Think Donald Trump. So what about recruiting in New York City?

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steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

SnapEngage – live chat integrates with your apps Zendesk – web help software UserVoice – turn customer feedback into action Kampyle – turn customer feedback into sales and relationships Ideaffect – customer feedback, vote, comment, manage Olark – live customer chat Assistly - Support customers by Web, email, chat, and (..)

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