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Technical Co-Founders Are A Myth

blog.captainrecruiter.com

Technical Co-Founders Are A Myth. An Internet entrepreneur needs a website. 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. Captain Recruiter. Real Advice. No Nonsense.

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Is the Lean Startup Dead?

Steve Blank

Jeff Katzenberg has a great track record – head of the studio at Paramount, chairman of Disney Studios, co-founder of DreamWorks and now chairman of NewTV. When VC’s realized how eager the public markets were for anything related to the internet, they pushed startups with little revenue and no profits into IPOs as fast as they could.

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Emotional Lessons From the Collapse of the Internet Bubble

Feld Thoughts

That perfectly describes how 2001 felt to me. We now have at least one generation of VCs and entrepreneurs who didn’t experience the collapse of the Internet bubble. In 2001, I was on the board of four public companies (and was co-chairman of two of them which I had been a co-founder of.)

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The Care And Feeding Of A Startup

YoungUpstarts

Neil Blumenthal , the youthful cofounder of Warby Parker, a disruptive company that transformed the conservative eyewear industry by creating affordable, stylish glasses for people across the world, defined a startup as “ a company working to solve a problem where the solution is not obvious and success is not guaranteed. “

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What Should All Entrepreneurs Know Before Starting Their Very First Business?

Up and Running

Rather than let you figure it out as you go, or scour the internet looking for answers, we’ve turned to the experts for a few words of wisdom. Neil Patel is the co-founder of Crazy Egg, Hello Bar and KISSmetrics. He’s also the founder and former CEO of iSuppli Corporation. Learn from other people’s mistakes – Neil Patel.

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Take Five – Venture

VC Cafe

The Economist talked about “ Venture capital’s reckoning “ and why despite the crisis in the market, and the large number of layoffs in the market, this crisis will not be like the dot com bust in 2001. It cites 3 reasons for that: 1.

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My 2020 Vision for Graduates: How to be Optimistic in Terrible Times

Reid Hoffman

At the same time, I was beginning to realize that the Internet was fundamentally different from closed, proprietary online services like CompuServe or eWorld. Because of the Internet — and especially because of the World Wide Web — things were starting to move very quickly in Silicon Valley in 1995. Trust your allies too.