Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 9, 2009

My cofounders and I would hash out nuances and details almost every day, re-drawing diagram after diagram on the whiteboard. MeganMurray : "Behind every technical problem is a human problem. leanstartup #w2e (via @blader ) Amen mcavalcanti : #w2e #leanstartup every technical problem is a usually a human problem.

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San Francisco Continuous Deployment Lean Agile 132

YoungUpstarts

MAY 6, 2019

You are looking for cofounders that can help you build a product. You have finally found a cofounder that can take care of the startup. How am I going to target the right audience? Let’s say you were just targeting a certain type of audience when you started for the first time. cases you will fail. Commitment. Networking.

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Startup Technical Cofounder Merger Early Stage 113

Up and Running

JANUARY 21, 2015

The scandal over Tinder CEO Sean Rad and CMO Justin Mateen sexually harassing fellow cofounder Whitney Wolfe ended in a million dollar settlement and horrible publicity for the company. ” Many of Mateen’s sexist and racist text messages to Wolfe were made public as a result of the trial. Microsoft has some really bad karma.

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Technical Cofounder Cofounder Ohio Houston 60

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).

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Technical Cofounder Cofounder IPO Boston 45

Austin Startup

MARCH 1, 2019

New Age Meats cofounders Brian Spears and Andra Necula The Forrest Four-Cast: March 1, 2019 Fifty diverse startups will aim to impress a panel of judges and a live audience with their skills, creativity and innovation at SXSW Pitch Presented by Cyndx. Brian Spears , Cofounder and CEO, spoke about his San Francisco-based company.

San Francisco 48

San Francisco Technical Cofounder Cofounder Startup 48

Hearpreneur

JULY 30, 2016

I am a session singer and producer, and I wish clients and peers would give me more of an opportunity to work in the technical side of the business (such as mixing and editing). One of the audience members introduced himself as representing a VC that was looking to encourage female entrepreneurs and business owners.

Technical Review 48

Technical Review Technical Cofounder Entrepreneur CTO Hire 48

Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

“In a lot of the industries in which I ended up launching companies, there was a pre-existing profile of what a successful entrepreneur should look like—typically a young, white male with a technical, finance, or political background,” says Aguirre de Carcer. These Women Entrepreneurs Created A Fake Male Cofounder To Dodge Startup Sexism.

Venture Capital 82

Venture Capital Lean Cofounder Technical Review 82

Up and Running

MAY 12, 2015

Getting feedback on your pitch is a great idea; the more people evaluate your pitch before your investors see it, the more chances you have to catch any errors in reasoning, assumptions that are unclear to your audience, or things that just simply don’t make sense or flow well. See Also 5 Sure-fire Ways to Bomb Your Investor Pitch.

Angel Investor 60

Angel Investor Software Review Technical Cofounder Due Diligence 60

www.paulgraham.com

AUGUST 1, 2008

And in particular, younger and more technical founders will be able to start startups than could before. It would be better if both were combined in one group, headed by someone with a technical background and some vision of what they wanted to accomplish. And that required very different skills from actually doing the startup.

Web 54

Web Startup Silicon Valley Technical Review 54

Up and Running

MARCH 1, 2016

Try to sample your ideal audience, and not just anyone. Blackbox cofounder Bjoern Lasse Herrmann says, “Too many startups start building first without talking to customers. Also known as asking people whether or not they’d buy your product.

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Non-disclosure Agreement NDA Non-Compete Naming 60

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 13, 2013

It was all technical. You know, the weird thing, Derek, and I should probably let you speak some time, but I was deeply technical when I went into Andersen consulting, and I got paid much less than engineers who graduated, because I had a degree in economics. Technical founder. And my specialty was computer networks.

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Cofounder Technical Cofounder Startup San Diego 337

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

MARCH 11, 2014

Well yeah, you could potentially find a cofounder. With higher pricing and other things in that nature, maybe annual pricing and so on, you could probably get enough money together to start having an employee if a cofounder doesn’t sound good. There’s a third alternative, and that’s a cofounder.

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Technical Cofounder Cofounder Software Review Management 220

ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 4, 2012

Three ex-execs spoke and 100 or so in the audience listened and commemorated. For Chris Siragusa, former CTO of Kozmo, it was a chance to talk about his new company, Max Delivery , which is a lot like his old company. So it felt like a real goodbye for them. The event was different things to different people.”.

Technical Cofounder 152

Technical Cofounder Cofounder Video New York City 152

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

NOVEMBER 21, 2011

How cofounders can collaborate without going crazy. Jason: Yeah, I think we need to do is to decide on who your target audience and actually talk to some of them with the screen shot and see what they think. I think A, you need to decide who your potential audience is, just like Bob said. And the technical term is, fool.

Widget 204

Widget Cofounder Technical Review Software Review 204

YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 27, 2013

If a VC asks his advisors what they think of your deal and they dislike it, it’s dead. If you are looking to add experienced people to your team but can’t afford to pay employees, look at finding a cofounder or using venture labor (hiring someone you pay in equity instead of cash). Horrifying, but true. Being invisible or forgotten.

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Venture Capital Technical Cofounder Milwaukee Valuation 180

www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

It lacked the audience my product needed to succeed – the early adopters web hackers looking for the next cool toy to play with. This is a very specific audience dictated by my decision not to build a consumer product. #17 Discord with a cofounder was one of the most fatal issues for a company. 4 – Poor Marketing.

Cofounder 89

Cofounder Startup Technical Cofounder CTO Hire 89

ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 4, 2012

Three ex-execs spoke and 100 or so in the audience listened and commemorated. For Chris Siragusa, former CTO of Kozmo, it was a chance to talk about his new company, Max Delivery , which is a lot like his old company. So it felt like a real goodbye for them. The event was different things to different people.”.

Technical Cofounder 96

Technical Cofounder Cofounder Video New York City 96

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 24, 2011

How cofounders can collaborate without going crazy. One is find yourself an audience and a marketplace and that’s something you can start doing within a week. How to move from a free to a paid product without losing all your users. How to differentiate yourself in a crowded market (and when perhaps you shouldn’t try).

Cofounder 208

Cofounder Technical Review Software Review Differentiation 208

reidhoffman.org

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

First, understand your audience. Put another way, the ideal financing partner is a financing cofounder. Eric also showed deep technology capabilities, proving our technical chops. The goal of an entrepreneur is to be one of those deals. Research prospective investors thoroughly. What kinds of businesses are they looking at?

Entrepreneur 111

Entrepreneur Viral Revenue Networking 111

ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 4, 2012

Three ex-execs spoke and 100 or so in the audience listened and commemorated. For Chris Siragusa, former CTO of Kozmo, it was a chance to talk about his new company, Max Delivery , which is a lot like his old company. So it felt like a real goodbye for them. The event was different things to different people.”.

Technical Cofounder 60

Technical Cofounder Video Cofounder New York City 60

Austin Startup

AUGUST 12, 2019

. & WORKING ADULT LEARNERS SXSW EDU | Track: Higher Education Speakers: Howard Lurie, Eduventures Principal Analyst at ACT | NRCCUA The Pitch: Seldom do schools have a moment to compare two fundamental audiences of potential students: traditional, first-time students and working adult learners.

Cofounder 51

Cofounder Entrepreneur Technical Cofounder Artificial Inteligence 51

Hearpreneur

JANUARY 7, 2017

This led me to realize there were two huge gaping holes in the industry, not just in terms of the way the industry served its customers – although undoubtedly this was a problem – but more importantly, inefficiencies and wastage that were always going to stop the private jet industry being accepted by a wider audience.

Entrepreneur 91

Entrepreneur LLC Cofounder Green 91