Steve Blank

JUNE 20, 2022

How does a newly hired Chief Technology Officer (CTO) find and grow the islands of innovation inside a large company? How not to waste your first six months as a new CTO thinking you’re making progress when the status quo is working to keep you at bay? But this is the first time he was the CTO of a company this size.

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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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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 15, 2014

In 2002, I met Libba and Gifford Pinchot, cofounders of Bainbridge Graduate Institute , at a retreat. Then you’re free to spend the rest of the day however you want. My friend Gene Kim, cofounder of Tripwire and author of When IT Fails , suggested I get a handheld gaming device. Enter the Craziness. Purpose: Free up time.

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The Next Web

JULY 13, 2012

The vision of Quick Left, it would seem, is to be somewhat of a technical cofounder as-a-service. We have some companies with whom we’ll always been their development partner because they don’t want to hire or manage at that level. That’s a bit harder to earn than putting on a better public face.

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crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2012

Questions to Ask Potential Cofounders: The Master List | Founder Dating - [link]. Reducing noise … should be a signal to rest of market … YC W13 Will Be Smaller - [link]. 5 things a non-technical founder can do - [link]. Startups should look to hire from agencies | Technori- [link]. Have we even noticed?

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 4, 2008

So if youre new, consider not paying any attention to the rest of this post, and just diving into the archives, if you havent already. Maybe youd like to start with The lean startup , How to listen to customers , or What does a startup CTO actually do? ) October 13, 2008 6:47 PM Luke G said. Eric, love the blog. Connect (off)line?

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Scalable Startup

AUGUST 9, 2018

They need the money to rent offices, hire staff, and establish their initial presence (website, incorporation, marketing). At this stage you’re essentially selling yourself and your cofounders. PreCog Security, a company I am currently helping to build as cofounder, is taking this approach. The last point above is important?

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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. The number one thing holding back new startups is funding.

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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.) Hire slow; fire fast. Hiring is the most important thing you do; spend at least a third of your time on it. Hire smart and effective people that are committed to what you’re doing.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

MARCH 11, 2014

Well yeah, you could potentially find a cofounder. With higher pricing and other things in that nature, maybe annual pricing and so on, you could probably get enough money together to start having an employee if a cofounder doesn’t sound good. Ten million, I think I can be very, very happy for the rest of my life.

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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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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Inevitably, the excuses begin: I need to hire people to build the product. Only eBay was founded by a single individual – the rest were team efforts. Post launch, if you gain traction, is where the business person will help take the load off of the technical folks. I don’t know any developers. I need money for the servers.

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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?" Developer, engineer, CTO, or technical co-founder? Maybe, dear asker, you do not need a technical "co-founder" at all.

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reidhoffman.org

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

Then, spend the rest of the pitch backing up those claims and increasing investors’ confidence in your investment thesis. Most investors arrive with questions, and if you proactively show you understand their principal concerns, you earn their attention for the rest of your pitch. That’s a worthy value proposition.

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www.paulgraham.com

AUGUST 1, 2008

We could hire employees, but we want to be forced to figure out how to scale investing. As the volume of startups increases, big companies will start to develop standardized procedures that make acquisitions little more work than hiring someone. Googles example should cure the rest of the world of this idea.

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