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6 Hiring Principles To Grow The Best New Venture Team

Startup Professionals Musings

In my role as a business advisor, I see successful businesses most often emerging from great teams rather than great products. Of course, it’s no surprise that most entrepreneurs don’t have a background in hiring teams, and don’t have a budget for training or human resource consultants. Recovery from a surprise bad hire is expensive.

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Is a Venture Studio Right for You?

Steve Blank

This post previously appeared in the Harvard Business Review. But these look for founders who have a technical or business model insight and a team. Accelerators provide these teams with technical and business expertise and connect them to a network of other founders and advisors. Carlos stirred his coffee.

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Equity-Only CTO and Equity-Only Developers

SoCal CTO

I had a recent email dialog with the founder of a company looking for a CTO for their startup. 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 ? He needed some kind of CTO and as well Developers.

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Finding a Technical Cofounder

bizthoughts.mikelee.org

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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6 Changes To Your Hiring Process To Attract The Best

Startup Professionals Musings

In my role as a business advisor, I see successful businesses most often emerging from great teams rather than great products. Of course, it’s no surprise that most entrepreneurs don’t have a background in hiring teams, and don’t have a budget for training or human resource consultants. Recovery from a surprise bad hire is expensive.

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How to find a technical cofounder

ryanwaggoner.com

Home About Me My Work Hire Me Contact Subscribe How to find a technical cofounder 09.10.10 Posted in Development , Entrepreneurship , Posts , Technology by Ryan W. These “startups&# are almost always mostly-non-technical founders offering 1-2% premoney for a “lead developer&# position.

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6 Keys To Hiring The Best Team For Your New Business

Startup Professionals Musings

In my role as a business advisor, I see successful businesses most often emerging from great teams rather than great products. Of course, it’s no surprise that most entrepreneurs don’t have a background in hiring teams, and don’t have a budget for training or human resource consultants. Recovery from a surprise bad hire is expensive.

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