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Finding a Technical Cofounder

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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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Why Founders Should Know How to Code

Steve Blank

Dave was building a mobile app for matching college students who needed to move within a local area with potential local movers. neither you nor your cofounder can code and you’re building a mobile app? As the miles sped by I explained to Dave that he had understood only two of the three parts of what makes a Lean Startup successful.

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How Do You Want to Spend Your Next 4 Years of Your Life?

Steve Blank

As our Lean LaunchPad for Life Sciences class winds down, a good number of the 26 teams are trying to figure out whether they should go forward to turn their class project into a business. You need to decide what your personal goal is and how it matches what you think this business can grow into. My customers were 14-year old boys.

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Guide to Finding a Technical Co-Founder | Vinicius Vacanti

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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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Founder's Dilemmas: Equity Splits

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With their confidence in their startup and themselves, their passion for their work and their mission, and their desire not to harm the fragile dynamic within the nascent founding team, cofounders tend to plan for the best that can happen. But such a best-case approach is hazardous.

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Smart Bear Live 8: Edwin from MeetingKing.com

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

Another idea would be to say matching up. the sort of pain solution match-up process can work. Well yeah, you could potentially find a cofounder. I think I might be able to speed things up, especially now that everybody always talks about the book The Lean Startup. Edwin: You get a cofounder onboard.

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The Ultimate Inventor’s Guide to Inventing Things

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You can do this on your own too using the lean planning methodology. Blackbox cofounder Bjoern Lasse Herrmann says, “Too many startups start building first without talking to customers. Thankfully, there’s a fast and affordable way to do so. See Also: One Easy Trick to Get Your Business Plan Done in Under an Hour.