Startup Lessons Learned
OCTOBER 11, 2010
On the other extreme, modern web-based applications face almost no technical risk, and are governed by high market uncertainty. Eric) In a bar in Amsterdam in 2005, my two cofounders and I came to the sad conclusion that startup we tried to built for two years was doomed. What follows are solely his opinions.
Altgate
JUNE 7, 2009
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Altgate
DECEMBER 15, 2010
Find a smart colleague you’ve worked well with before, who has complementary skill sets and/or personality—and you *might* have found a good cofounder. link] Matt Mireles As a first time non-technical CEO who started off solo, having 2 technical co-founders is awesome. 61M, and the fourth founder is a wash.
Seeing Both Sides
NOVEMBER 1, 2011
Niraj Shah, CEO/cofounder of Wayfair ($500m revenue). Colin Angle, CEO/cofounder of iRobot (2005 IPO). Paul English, CTO/cofounder of Kayak ($200m revenue, S-1 filed). Matt Lauzon, CEO/cofounder of Gemvara (reportedly $10m revenue) . Scott Griffith, CEO ZipCar (2010 IPO).
www.frozennorth.org
SEPTEMBER 16, 2011
Friday - May 27, 2005 at 09:21 AM in. One of the cofounders has been active on a mailing list for Asterisk , an open-source Linux-based PBX. In other words, theyll use Voice-over-IP technology to provide all the technical infrastructure of a call center (automated self service, agent queueing, etc.) Gourmet Customer Service.
reidhoffman.org
NOVEMBER 12, 2013
In 2005, we launched all three products — in the order of listings, subscriptions, then ads — eventually discovering two surprising insights: The principal market for our listings and subscriptions products became the recruiting space, instead of business development and networking. Jean-Luc showed deep technology capabilities.
techcrunch.com
OCTOBER 23, 2010
Post launch, if you gain traction, is where the business person will help take the load off of the technical folks. The business person can take all the meetings while the technical folks work on making the product better. Ron Oh and another factor to bring reality to the table - Sometimes you find out your cofounders suck.
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