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. It’s a Web and mobile apps design and development company that partners with others of various sizes in order to help them make the important decisions that they might not be qualified to decide themselves.

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Scalable Startup

AUGUST 9, 2018

At this stage you’re essentially selling yourself and your cofounders. But to get that Silicon Valley angel funding you have to be part of that social network; most of the rest of the world doesn’t have that frothy environment. PreCog Security, a company I am currently helping to build as cofounder, is taking this approach.

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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]. Founder Divorce: Nine Lessons From When My Business Partner Jumped Ship | Forbes - [link].

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clicksend.wordpress.com

OCTOBER 26, 2010

The number two thing is lack of a technical co-founder. If you attend networking events, you’ve probably met a lot of entrepreneurs with an idea who need a partner to build it. Partner with a Programmer After they have their big idea, most non-technical founders set forth to find an engineer to form a partnership.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

“In a lot of the industries in which I ended up launching companies, there was a pre-existing profile of what a successful entrepreneur should look like—typically a young, white male with a technical, finance, or political background,” says Aguirre de Carcer. Do you know how many female or minority partners the firm has? Do you care?

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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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Up and Running

MARCH 1, 2016

Boris Wertz, founding partner of Version One Ventures, believes that if you’ve worked in an industry you’re passionate about for a long time, you may know something about the market that nobody else knows. Blackbox cofounder Bjoern Lasse Herrmann says, “Too many startups start building first without talking to customers.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Only eBay was founded by a single individual – the rest were team efforts. In Meebo’s case, for example, I was lucky enough to partner up with Elaine and Sandy. Post launch, if you gain traction, is where the business person will help take the load off of the technical folks. Partner up? No phone system. No legal muck.

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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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reidhoffman.org

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

× At Greylock , my partners and I are driven by one guiding mission: always help entrepreneurs. In a single year, the classic general partner in a venture firm is exposed to around 5,000 pitches; decides to look more closely at 600 to 800 of them; and ends up doing between 0 and 2 deals. What will that partner tell their partners?

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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? 24 Comments • Nov 8, 2010 I love this answer. Rockstar v.

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Steve Blank

JULY 27, 2015

Venk Shukla , president TiE Silicon Valley and general partner, Monta Vista Capital. Steve also teaches my Lean LaunchPad course at Berkeley and Stanford, and is the cofounder of Kinetrope, a product design shop working on bringing to market devices in the area of entertainment and IoT. Steve Weinstein , CEO of MovieLabs.

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