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8 Steps To Starting A New Venture With Limited Funds

Startup Professionals Musings

These days you can create a C-corp or LLC online quickly at a low cost, to serve you well in signing partners, intellectual property, investors, and revenue. Advisors and investors need to see your whole story in as few as ten slides. You need to recruit advisors, key partners, and cofounders well before approaching investors.

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10 Keys To Finding That Perfect-Fit Business Partner

Startup Professionals Musings

I realize now that these two were near-perfect co-founders, with Bill having the technical passion, and Steve bringing the business experience from his prior stint at Procter and Gamble. The challenge is how to find that elusive perfect-fit partner. In fact, your ideal partner may also be an investor.

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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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Hear how the Lean Startup began — and helped one company find success: Episode 2 on Sirius XM Channel 111: Eric Ries and Jon Sebastiani

Steve Blank

He later co-founded and served as CTO of IMVU and then authored The Lean Startup. Named one of BusinessWeek’s Best Young Entrepreneurs of Tech, Eric served as a venture advisor at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers before moving on to advise startups and venture capital firms independently. .

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Why Online Video Just Took One More Big Step to Legitimacy

Both Sides of the Table

He joined when Maker was a small, chaotic organization and helped bridge our talented creative team with the outside world of investor, brands, partners & press. Another major hire was Ryan Lissack who joined as CTO. Ynon started as shareholder, board member & advisor and switches to full-time executive.

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Episode 40: Website Traffic and Online Booking with Joseph Shemesh and Ethan Anderson

Mike Michalowicz

Joseph is an Achieved CEO/CTO investor and strategic advisor. He was also Cofounder & CEO of Redbeacon, which allowed consumers to request bids for home services. He was recently honored to be named to the Silicon Valley 100 and 16 Up-and-Coming Silicon Valley Entrepreneurs You Need to Meet.

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Tune In, Turn On, Drop Out – The Startup Genome Project

Steve Blank

But he left to work on what he told me he came to do - crack the innovation code of Silicon Valley and share it with the rest of the world. Max and his partners interviewed and analyzed over 650 early-stage Internet startups. Technical-heavy founding teams are 3.3x Business-heavy founding teams are 6.2x