Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 15, 2014

In 2002, I met Libba and Gifford Pinchot, cofounders of Bainbridge Graduate Institute , at a retreat. My friend Gene Kim, cofounder of Tripwire and author of When IT Fails , suggested I get a handheld gaming device. Enter the Craziness. The two tried to convince me to enroll in their new MBA program focused on sustainable business.

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

OCTOBER 7, 2012

At this point, the very pregnant cofounder was weeping. Daymond offered to be an advisor. The cofounder was charismatic and persuasive and asking for $85k for 12% of the company. He did $5M in 2011 sales and is projected $7.2m But in the end Robert came back in to join Lori. The company took the deal.

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www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

January 11th, 2011 the Chubby Team 34 Comments. 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. broadstuff says: January 11, 2011 at. Investors Companies.

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davetroy.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Dave Troy: Fueled By Randomness Design, Entrepreneurship, Economics and Software home Twittervision Flickrvision About @davetroy ← Start By Taking Action A New Plan for Economic Development → In Entrepreneurial Ecosystem, Cofounders Find YOU! And I’ve promised to talk about what it takes to find cofounders.

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blog.captainrecruiter.com

MARCH 8, 2012

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. skip to main | skip to sidebar. Real Advice.

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www.kernelmag.com

MARCH 8, 2012

The Scene Developers Nailing that elusive technical co-founder. Wednesday, 21 December 2011. Certainly few would argue that hiring is easy, however in my experience the most significant startup talent shortage – certainly in London – comes at the earliest stage: the number of technically-minded founders. Andy Young.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 20, 2019

by Everett Harper, CEO and cofounder of Truss. We’ve seen startups have success in hiring independent advisors who can identify the natural leaders within the company, and show them how to apply their characteristics to the art of good management. Avoiding churn is also key in monitoring burn rate. At Women 2.0

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Altgate

JUNE 7, 2009

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Tim Keane

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

« Picking Ventures: Part 1 | Main. | » September 28, 2011.  Mike Markulla came with the first investments - as a cofounder -- because investors felt the company needed leadership that could attract talent to be able to grow and he brought in Scott. November 2011. September 2011. March 2011.

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www.startuplessonslearned.com

MAY 4, 2012

With their confidence in their startup and themselves, their passion for their work and their mission, and their desire not to harm the fragile dynamic within the nascent founding team, cofounders tend to plan for the best that can happen. But such a best-case approach is hazardous.

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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.

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Seeing Both Sides

AUGUST 16, 2012

Chatting with CEO and cofounder Kaufer this week, I was reminded of the fact that the company started with a very different business model in mind. TripAdvisor founder Stephen Kaufer is the classic technical founder who has grown with the company to be the end-to-end leader. billion market capitalization as of this writing. .

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www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Advisor. ); STARTUP. The 2011 Inc. The 2011 Top Lists. Chip Morse , cofounder and partner with Morse, Barnes-Brown & Pendleton P.C., Copyright © 2011 Mansueto Ventures LLC. Entrepreneur news from reporter Eric Markowitz. Sales & Marketing | Wednesdays. Email address: Home. Tools & Research. Newsletters.

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David Teten

JANUARY 28, 2019

I’ve listed the most common levers that universities use below, with some live examples from Yale: Strong technical departments : Computer Science , Math , Physics. In 2011, Yale launched Yale-NUS, a sister university based in Singapore. There are currently over 1,000 Chinese students and scholars at Yale.

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Up and Running

MARCH 1, 2016

In 2011, it accounted for approximately $2.3 Blackbox cofounder Bjoern Lasse Herrmann says, “Too many startups start building first without talking to customers. Today, a standard jeweler’s workbench from Rio Grande comes in at around $420. For anyone who doesn’t know, the hobby jeweler’s market is huge.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 7, 2017

In 2011, I was looking for my next challenge. But I didn’t start immediately; I didn’t know optics well, and I assumed that if there was to be a technical solution it would come from somebody who did. So I sat at home for a year to teach myself about optics and ended up founding Light with my cofounder in 2013.

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www.quora.com

JANUARY 16, 2011

Find Questions, Topics and People Add Question Add Question Non-Technical Co-Founders Co-Founders Technical Co-founders Finding Co-Founders Startups & "How Important Are Ideas?" Developer, engineer, CTO, or technical co-founder? Maybe, dear asker, you do not need a technical "co-founder" at all.

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steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

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