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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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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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Four Major Startup Stages That You Should Know About

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You don’t have a product and most of your meetings will not bring any fruit. You are looking for cofounders that can help you build a product. You have finally found a cofounder that can take care of the startup. In this stage, you will also search the market to check if your idea is viable. Product development.

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Lessons Learned: About the author

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Maybe youd like to start with The lean startup , How to listen to customers , or What does a startup CTO actually do? ) Because of IMVUs reputation, Ive also had the opportunity to serve as an advisor or board member for more than a dozen startups. It was by far the most intense and most rewarding experience of my professional life.

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Where to Get Feedback on Your Business Pitch

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Drawing on advice from our own Tim Berry, founder of Palo Alto Software and Josh Cochrane, our VP of Product Development, I’ve broken down a few of the different options for entrepreneurs looking for feedback on their pitch. We always used advisors or mentors to vet numbers and the block and tackle items within a pitch.”.

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The Ultimate Inventor’s Guide to Inventing Things

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You will still need to do an online search to make sure you’re not infringing on someone else’s idea. Patent Search. You can also use Google’s Patent Search to see if similar ideas have been patented. You can also use Google’s Patent Search to see if similar ideas have been patented. Filing for trademark protection.

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Lean Startup fbFund wrap-up

Startup Lessons Learned

Ive been there: is it me or my cofounder thats crazy? Use some customer development to find out. Use some customer development to find out. The power of A/B testing is so under-exploited in product development, that Im trying new ways to explain its benefits. How can we tell the difference? What if its both of you?

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