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Finding a Technical Cofounder for Your Startup

SoCal CTO

Tech Events / Meetups - In Los Angeles, There are lots of Networking Events in Los Angeles and Southern California that are techie oriented. Take lots of them out for free coffee, food, beer. Ask them about your concept. You should definitely hit up the Startup Weekend events as well. Make sure you meet the people who run these events.

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A new field guide for entrepreneurs of all stripes

Startup Lessons Learned

TLDR: Brant Cooper and Patrick Vlaskovits , authors of The Entrepreneur's Guide to Customer Development are back with a new book called The Lean Entrepreneur. Since then, Brant and Patrick have been tireless advocates for the whole Lean Startup movement. Illustrations by FAKEGRIMLOCK. You can pre-order it starting today.

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How to Hunt Programmers for Your Startup - A Field Guide

SoCal CTO

Tech Events / Meetups - There are lots of Networking Events in Los Angeles and Southern California that are techie oriented. " and start leaning to prompt them to start walking with you. Visit your friends and ask them to bring you to their dev shop. Ask your friends to visit their dev shop/programmers on their behalf.

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How to Hunt Programmers for Your Startup - A Field Guide

SoCal CTO

Tech Events / Meetups - There are lots of Networking Events in Los Angeles and Southern California that are techie oriented. " and start leaning to prompt them to start walking with you. Visit your friends and ask them to bring you to their dev shop. Ask your friends to visit their dev shop/programmers on their behalf.

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Thanksgiving Day

Steve Blank

This year, with the kids grown, their choice was to fly up from Southern California and spend the holidays at our ranch. So no post today on entrepreneurship, Secret History of Silicon Valley, Customer Development, Lean Startups, etc. Imu turkey can’t be beat if you’re trying to exceed any rational amount of salt intake.)

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Hacking for Defense & Hacking for Diplomacy – Educator/Sponsor Class

Steve Blank

So I was astonished how ready and eager students were for a class that combines the toughest problems in national security, with learning Lean Innovation methods. We had more applicants (70+) for the 32 seats in this class than we usually get in our Lean LaunchPad entrepreneurship class. Result: Hell yes.

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Hacking for Defense & Hacking for Diplomacy – Educator/Sponsor Class

Steve Blank

So I was astonished how ready and eager students were for a class that combines the toughest problems in national security, with learning Lean Innovation methods. We had more applicants (70+) for the 32 seats in this class than we usually get in our Lean LaunchPad entrepreneurship class. Result: Hell yes.