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Working with Developers

SoCal CTO

It may give non-technical founders a bit more insight into working styles when it comes to developers. If you’ve ever seen an athlete use a big word in a slightly wrong way, that’s how you sound when you use technical language and you don’t quite know what it means. I.e., they need a developer more than they need a CTO.

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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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Startup Grind Turns the Tables on Mark Suster

Both Sides of the Table

Here is the link to the video interview. If you want a sneak peak on that it’s in the video or transcript. Below is an edited transcript if you prefer to video – easier to scan I guess. [00:00:06] It was all technical. Last month they turned the tables on me. it would make more sense than “me.”

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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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Smart Bear Live 8: Edwin from MeetingKing.com

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

I haven’t looked at the video yet, but I should be able to understand from the headline and get some kind of emotional reaction to the headline. Well yeah, you could potentially find a cofounder. There’s a third alternative, and that’s a cofounder. Edwin: You get a cofounder onboard. Jason: Oh, yeah.

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Smart Bear Live 7: More from AZ Disruptors

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

Let’s people sell premium digital content online without dealing with any of the technical stuff. Dan: Videos, music. Dan: Music, videos. Selling videos. Like somebody who is more of a technical person, versus just learning the new technologies myself and implementing something. Jason: Why is that premium?

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Why Startups Fail - 20 Top Reasons Gleaned from 32 Startup Failure Post-Mortems

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Discord with a cofounder was one of the most fatal issues for a company. Bricabox cofounder advises, “When a co-founder walks out of a company — as was the case for me — you’ve already been dealt a heavy blow. One of the main reasons BricaBox failed was because it was solving a technical problem. During this year they.