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Technical Co-Founders Are A Myth

blog.captainrecruiter.com

Technical Co-Founders Are A Myth. Two years ago I got the bug to do an online recruiting startup and I began the hunt to find a technical co-founder - a software engineer who works for no cash - to help me build my dream website. I learned something: technical co-founders are a myth. Real Advice.

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Blogging is the new resume: Why less is not always more

The Next Web

Ryan Hoover is the co-creator of Product Hunt , creator of Startup Edition , and instructor at Tradecraft. GitHub can be a fantastic resume for software developers. Several followers offered me a job and introductions to other founders. Can we all agree resumes are crummy? x 11 sheet of paper? I was going to be fine.

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boldstart in 2017, enterprise tech inĀ 2018

BeyondVC

2017 was another year of growing, learning, investing and partnering with amazing founders. Once again, we are grateful to have the opportunity to work with so many amazing founders, advisors, co-investors, and other collaborators to bring the boldstart family together. 2017 Recap. 2 exits including yhat (sold to Alteryx?

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Twitter Link Roundup #156 ā€“ Small Business, Social Media, Design, Copywriting, Marketing And More

crowdSPRING Blog

The Founders Lie About Comfort Zones – [link]. Investors Need to Lose Their Egos and Founders Need to Gain Some Confidence – [link]. 10 adjustments to make when working for a Big Co. The Difference Between Stealth Mode and Quiet Mode – [link]. Your Brand is What You Do – [link]. Just got acquired?

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This Week in VC Episode 6 with @Jason Calacanis: Best One Yet

Both Sides of the Table

What are ā€œReg Dā€ filings with the SEC and why does this make it harder to stay in stealth mode? I asked some of the participating VCs, and they told me their attorneys had figured out a way to keep their stealth-mode companies stealthy.Yes, this strategy is not for every company. We spoke briefly about why.

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Those Beautiful Nest Eggs

Lightspeed Venture Partners

I first met Tony Fadell, co-founder and CEO of Nest, in the summer of 1991. Unbeknownst to the rest of the world because it was in deep stealth, GM was trying to create what we now know as the mobile Web with the worldā€™s largest telecom service providers and consumer electronics companies based on GMā€™s technology.

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How to Compete Against Open Source Competition

Software By Rob

The Differentiators The areas that kill the most time when consuming open source software are: Installation process Documentation Support Usability I’m sure we can all point out a handful of open source projects that have decent documentation and decent usability. Co-workers arent’ comfortable with commandeline/Tortoise.