Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 11, 2014

In my years of advising startups and occasional investing, I’ve seen many great ideas start and fail, but the right team always seems to make good things happen, even without the ultimate idea. You need to have a technical genius on the team to get your startup product off the ground. The trusted leader. The industry veteran.

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

I had a recent email dialog with the founder of a company looking for a CTO for their startup. Was it a Startup Founder Developer Gap ? Did they really need a Startup CTO or Developer or both? And do I fit as a Part-Time CTO , Technology Advisor , CTO Founder , Acting CTO ?

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 9, 2020

In my years of advising startups and occasional investing, I’ve seen many great ideas start and fail, but the right team always seems to make good things happen, even without the ultimate idea. You need to have a technical genius on the team to get your startup product off the ground. The trusted leader. The industry veteran.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 17, 2023

Three types of organizations – Incubators, Accelerators and Venture Studios – have emerged to reduce the risk of early-stage startup failure by helping teams find product/market fit and raise initial capital. They do the most to de-risk the early stages of a startup. Reducing Startup Risk.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 18, 2018

In my years of advising startups and occasional investing, I’ve seen many great ideas start and fail, but the right team always seems to make good things happen, even without the ultimate idea. You need to have a technical genius on the team to get your startup product off the ground. The trusted leader. The industry veteran.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 29, 2019

Image via Max Pixel Startup investors tell me they invest in a new venture with a higher caliber of people, rather than the product or service, and I agree. In my role as a business advisor, I see successful businesses most often emerging from great teams rather than great products. Be patient when filling open positions.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 15, 2017

Startup investors tell me they invest in a new venture with a higher caliber of people, rather than the product or service, and I agree. In my role as a business advisor, I see successful businesses most often emerging from great teams rather than great products. Be patient when filling open positions.

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bizthoughts.mikelee.org

MARCH 8, 2012

BizThoughts Thoughts about business, technology, the web & entrepreneurship About Booklist Contact Nov 15 2011 Finding a Technical Cofounder By Mike Lee Categories: Entrepreneurship , Leadership Since I have a technical background, I get about one offer a month to join some engineering team, or to be a technical cofounder.

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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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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 13, 2015

In my years of advising startups and occasional investing, I’ve seen many great ideas start and fail, but the right team always seems to make good things happen, even without the ultimate idea. You need to have a technical genius on the team to get your startup product off the ground. The trusted leader. The industry veteran.

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Hunter Walker

DECEMBER 13, 2020

A hire or two that you should have been able to close won’t join. Can your lack of interest or skill in “selling” be counter-balanced by a cofounder or team that’s great at it? And a non-CEO cofounder who can sell the heck out of your company is just about the next best thing to being skilled yourself. How does this harm occur?

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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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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 20, 2019

by Everett Harper, CEO and cofounder of Truss. It’s not uncommon for startups that are laser-focused on fundraising to deprioritize certain challenges. Startups tend to put a premium on being “agile,” but that doesn’t always work – and certainly won’t replace the effective collaboration a business needs to grow.

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www.virtuosimedia.com

MARCH 8, 2012

Startup Advice. 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. Copywriting Tips. Social Media.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 13, 2013

One of my favorite events last year was attending Startup Grind where I got to interview Clayton Christensen, author of The Innovator’s Dilemma. And of course we talked about many of my views of building startups. You didn’t join startups then. You joined a startup if you couldn’t get a real job.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 3, 2014

A startup is not just about the idea, it’s about testing and then implementing the idea. neither you nor your cofounder can code and you’re building a mobile app? This startup was broken at multiple levels. In fact, it wasn’t even a startup. There were three problems with Dave’s startup. Book of Five Rings.

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startupbaltimore.org

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Home Events Calendar Job Board Startup Resources Archives About Contact Interested in an Open-Data Contest in Baltimore? Finding a Technical Cofounder by Mike Subelsky on September 17, 2010 Advice View Comments Over the past 18 months I’ve had the same conversation with about ten entrepreneurs looking to start a software-based business.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2013

Our industry just took one big step towards legitimacy with the hiring of renowned media exec Ynon Kreiz to run Maker Studios. Another major hire was Ryan Lissack who joined as CTO. Ynon started as shareholder, board member & advisor and switches to full-time executive. Danny and Ynon in a way will switch roles.

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Up and Running

JULY 8, 2016

If you’ve ever tried to start a software company or build a mobile app, you’ve probably come across these options for getting it out there: Find a technical cofounder. Hire a freelancer to build your app. You need someone who is very technically capable, has time to work on the project, and has a passion for what you’re doing.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 17, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Saturday, February 17, 2007 Finding Good Developers in Los Angeles? Im part of a CTO group that meets once a month to discuss various topics. He has twenty years’ experience as a CTO. He has been the CTO for several start-ups, most notably eHarmony.

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blog.captainrecruiter.com

MARCH 8, 2012

Technical Co-Founders Are A Myth. Two years ago I got the bug to do an online recruiting startup and I began the hunt to find a technical co-founder - a software engineer who works for no cash - to help me build my dream website. I learned something: technical co-founders are a myth. Sunday, August 15, 2010.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 6, 2019

by Arsalan Sajid, startup community manager at Cloudways. Life is not a box of chocolates and startups are not always easy to start. There is a complete process that governs the startup lifecycle including inception to exit. This startup stage starts from the day you decide to work on a startup idea. Early Stage.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

I did a presentation this week at Coloft that looked at how Non-Technical Founders can go about getting their MVP built. The real reason to build an MVP is to do early tests of key Startup Metrics for the business. And the back-end is something that a non-technical founder can manage. To prove/disprove a hypothesis.

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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. So, should people who can’t write code do a startup? Enterprise. CrunchBase. Hot topics.

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www.kernelmag.com

MARCH 8, 2012

The Scene Developers Nailing that elusive technical co-founder. The upshot of all of this is that today’s startups can concentrate maximum time and resources addressing the problems they set out to solve. I’ve been sent a random email from someone who is “founding” a business, who needs a technical co-founder.”.

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

JANUARY 14, 2011

I would note that there was no inconsistency in the hiring bar applied to the rest of the management team at Serious Business; Charles Hudson and Mike Jimenez are now cofounders of Atomic Panda and Ryan Ferrier is Chief of Staff at Crowdflower. Inconsistent Hiring Bar. Lack of Strategic Focus. And we did this repeatedly.

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The Next Web

JANUARY 30, 2014

George Deeb is the Managing Partner at Chicago-based Red Rocket Ventures , a startup consulting and financial advisory firm based in Chicago. Often times, a startup entrepreneur has a good business idea, but doesn’t know how to build the product or service. Preferably, somebody that I trust who can personally vouch for this person.

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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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viniciusvacanti.com

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

Home About Contact Me How To Make It as a First-Time Entrepreneur Vinicius Vacanti Guide to Finding a Technical Co-Founder September 7, 2010 | View Comments Steve Job's Technical Co-Founder “I’ve got this HUGE idea. I just need to find a technical co-founder.&# I was in this situation and we barely escaped.

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SiliconHills

AUGUST 24, 2012

A new tech startup in San Antonio seeks to change the way companies hire technical talent. TrueAbility, a cloud-based technical assessment tool can help hiring managers and recruiters assess technical skills of job candidates, said Frederick Mendler, one of the company’s cofounders and its CEO.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 18, 2012

People say the important part of a Startup is its Team. There are three market categories that startups from Singapore are likely to address: 1. Startups in this category start off in their home markets (i.e. As a startup in Asia, the top 2 markets to start from are China , and India. This is by no means easy.

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Up and Running

JULY 28, 2022

You’ll need the EIN to pay taxes for your business, apply for licenses and permits, open a bank account, and hire and pay employees. Innovation can be a product, design, or a process of doing things to solve a technical problem. Unsure of how to handle some of these startup steps? Develop a founders agreement.

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The Startup Toolkit

JANUARY 6, 2017

While I suppose that could be a sign of ambitious embezzlement, in this case it’s thanks to the byproducts of working on a startup: skills, network, insight. One benefit is that a couple years plodding away on a startup transforms you into an incredible freelancer[1]. Another is that your next startup becomes easier.

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Hunter Walker

DECEMBER 26, 2021

A Career In Startups From Dwolla to DAOs (and how to get whitelisted for the Illuminati NFT mint). Now that all three of those situations have changed, I figured it would be worthwhile to check in with him about living in Miami, going deep into web3 and his latest startup Upstream. Now it seems to have evolved quite a bit.

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David Teten

MARCH 14, 2018

– Build out low-cost force multipliers such as scouts , Advisors, Entrepreneurs in Residence, Venture Partners, and so on. I’ve listed a few more below which require meaningful startup and ongoing costs. – Hire more non-Partner staff. – Hire more Partners. For more, see the Startup Studio Playbook.

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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. My friend Gene Kim, cofounder of Tripwire and author of When IT Fails , suggested I get a handheld gaming device. They hired someone else to wash the dishes and clean the house. Enter the Craziness. Purpose: Free up time.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 4, 2008

(Maybe youd like to start with The lean startup , How to listen to customers , or What does a startup CTO actually do? ) He serves on the advisory board of a number of technology startups, and has worked as a consultant to a number of startups, companies, and venture capital firms.

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