Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 5, 2020

In my role as an advisor to entrepreneurs, I often find founders who have such conviction and passion for their new idea, that they can’t believe anyone could challenge it. I like the specifics on how to do this in the classic book, “ The Agenda Mover: When Your Good Idea Is Not Enough ,” by leadership expert Samuel B.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 6, 2013

Also, trusted advisors and experienced investors should be polled for good candidates. There are several books written on this subject. entrepreneur cofounder startup investor dream team business' There you can connect with thousands of potential executives and partners, or find a planned meetup in a city near you.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 18, 2018

Thus I was happily surprised when I found the classic book, “ The Tech Entrepreneur’s Survival Guide ,” by Bernd Schoner, PhD, and cofounder of ThingMagic, which leans heavily on the people side of the equation. You need to have a technical genius on the team to get your startup product off the ground. The trusted leader.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 24, 2012

Schatzkin’s book has great insights into how the inventor of the television made his breakthrough at the amazing age of 14. ” But as you’ll learn in this bio, he was a brilliant man who wrote more than 470 books on topics across the spectrum. “The Boy Who Invented Television” by Paul W. Farnsworth.

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rob.by

MARCH 8, 2012

Finding Technical Cofounders Is Hard. Yesterday, Michael Pope posted an article titled Technical Cofounders Are a Myth. He argued that software engineers don’t finish what they start, and that you’re better off paying a technical person than partnering with one. Tuesday, August 17, 2010.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 13, 2015

Thus I was happy to see a recent book, “ The Tech Entrepreneur’s Survival Guide ,” by Bernd Schoner, PhD, and cofounder of ThingMagic, which leans heavily on the people side of the equation. You need to have a technical genius on the team to get your startup product off the ground. The trusted leader. The industry veteran.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 11, 2009

Posted on June 11, 2009 by steveblank When my students ask me about whether they should be a founder or cofounder of a startup I ask them to take a walk around the block and ask themselves: Are you comfortable with: Chaos – startups are disorganized Uncertainty – startups never go per plan Are you: Resilient – at times you will fail – badly.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 22, 2019

To put this all in perspective, I was happy to see the guidance and recommendations on how to deal with artificial intelligence correctly in a new book, “ The Big Nine ,” by Amy Webb. This doesn’t require any great technical acumen, just vigilant attention to values and rights. Individual biases must be excluded.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 29, 2019

In my role as a business advisor, I see successful businesses most often emerging from great teams rather than great products. Image via Max Pixel Startup investors tell me they invest in a new venture with a higher caliber of people, rather than the product or service, and I agree.

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Hunter Walker

DECEMBER 13, 2020

Can your lack of interest or skill in “selling” be counter-balanced by a cofounder or team that’s great at it? And a non-CEO cofounder who can sell the heck out of your company is just about the next best thing to being skilled yourself. His book, Delivering Happiness , is wonderful. Yes and No. Notes and More.

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SoCal CTO

JULY 13, 2010

Some great content around the intersection of startups and being a Startup CTO in June this year. This continues my series of posts: Top 29 Startup Posts May 2010 Startup CTO Top 30 Posts for April 16 Great Startup Posts from March There was some really great content in June. Now I have.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 4, 2008

Maybe youd like to start with The lean startup , How to listen to customers , or What does a startup CTO actually do? ) He is the co-author of several books including The Black Art of Java Game Programming (Waite Group Press, 1996). While an undergraduate at Yale Unviersity, he co-founded Catalyst Recruiting. Eric, love the blog.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 22, 2011

I booked several high-profile meetings in advance. This time on mysterious party bus to nowhere but situated with the CTO & Cofounder of Living Social, Aaron Batalion. I hold true to form and follow my own advice. I had scheduled dinners every night with small groups of people. I stayed out late. Strike that. Every night.

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Mike Michalowicz

AUGUST 10, 2015

Ethan discusses the new age of booking appointments with your clients. Joseph is an Achieved CEO/CTO investor and strategic advisor. Ethan is the Founder & CEO of MyTime, a startup that allows consumers to find and book appointments from over 2.5 Online booking systems are a huge time saver! Our Guests.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 19, 2018

In my role as an advisor to entrepreneurs, I often find founders who have such conviction and passion for their new idea, that they can’t believe anyone could challenge it. I like the specifics on how to do this in the classic book, “ The Agenda Mover: When Your Good Idea Is Not Enough ,” by leadership expert Samuel B.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 15, 2017

In my role as a business advisor, I see successful businesses most often emerging from great teams rather than great products. Startup investors tell me they invest in a new venture with a higher caliber of people, rather than the product or service, and I agree.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 24, 2015

The book “ Hatching Twitter: A True Story of Money, Power, Friendship, and Betrayal ” explores the tumultuous proceedings before that life-changing award win, as well as the even more turbulent times that followed when Twitter would become the multi-billion dollar business that it is today.

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Up and Running

JUNE 14, 2012

Every business needs some technical skill and some business acumen. If you’re interested in more details about this topic, I recommend a very good book called The Founder’s Dilemmas. Often co-founders are friends, but is that the best way to select co-founders?

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

In my role as an advisor to entrepreneurs, I often find founders who have such conviction and passion for their new idea, that they can’t believe anyone could challenge it. I like the specifics on how to do this in a new book, “ The Agenda Mover: When Your Good Idea Is Not Enough ,” by leadership expert Samuel B. It’s been done before.

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

NOVEMBER 12, 2015

A year later and the Hungry Machine team had one of the top apps on Facebook, a social network for book lovers called Visual Bookshelf. Over the next four years I worked closely with Aaron and his cofounders as LivingSocial rode out the ups and down of the local daily-deals space. Aaron was not an introverted CTO.

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

NOVEMBER 12, 2015

A year later and the Hungry Machine team had one of the top apps on Facebook, a social network for book lovers called Visual Bookshelf. Over the next four years I worked closely with Aaron and his cofounders as LivingSocial rode out the ups and down of the local daily-deals space. Aaron was not an introverted CTO.

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Steve Blank

MAY 11, 2009

The Cinepak codec was written by the engineer who would become my cofounder at Rocket Science Games.) I was the Senior Technical Writer for SMac from 1988-1991. There was nothing for the consumer to do. No settings, no buttons – plug your camera or VCR in and it just worked seamlessly. It worked great on the slow CPUs at the time.

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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. The company still had $2M in inventory on the books. But in the end Robert came back in to join Lori. The company took the deal.

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The Equity Kicker

AUGUST 20, 2014

His hypothesis was that consumers were moving towards last minute bookings and there was a gap in the market. With no team and no technical expertise Matt was planning to find a team and build out some product before starting to raise some seed money. FINDING A COFOUNDER.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

Let’s people sell premium digital content online without dealing with any of the technical stuff. There’s a lot of people who are experts or have a book that want to make money in other ways just like this. And please tweet your thanks to Software Promotions for sponsoring Smart Bear Live! Jason: Right. Dan: Videos, music.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 15, 2019

Ron Price is an internationally recognized business advisor, executive coach, speaker, and author who has worked in fifteen countries and served in nearly every level of executive management over the past forty years. At least, that’s the way we see it.

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Reid Hoffman

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

We have interviewed many dozens of successful entrepreneurs and executives over the years, for our books and our podcasts, and we can’t recall any who said that an executive education class played a vital role in their success. Picking courses out of a catalog won’t provide the tools needed to adapt.

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The Next Web

JULY 13, 2012

The vision of Quick Left, it would seem, is to be somewhat of a technical cofounder as-a-service. ” The company also keeps an open-book policy, whereby it goes over the financials and clients with its employees each quarter. That’s a bit harder to earn than putting on a better public face.

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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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mashable.com

JUNE 8, 2010

The mailing list works in two ways: Every two weeks the 10 most interesting listings are e-mailed to more than 40,000 startups on the “Help a Startup Out Digest” listserv, and every week the best technical listings are sent to the “Hackers Digest” listserv. Because there’s a fee to post jobs and resumes, there’s not much spam.

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David Teten

JANUARY 19, 2021

Our categorization is not a technical one. This structure allows for alignment on the front end, and real-time flexibility for performance metrics,” says Samira Salman , a family office investor and advisor. . Early-stage: Cofounder with engineering/ product background from top-tier university or major technology company.

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Tim Keane

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. Angels and Advisors. Books I Like.   We often forget that the first CEO at Apple was -- Mike Scott - not Steve Jobs. March 2011.

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Austin Startup

OCTOBER 19, 2019

I had the good fortune of being asked by Brett to serve as an advisor to data.world and readily accepted. I have found a CEO committed to building and developing talent, along with his cofounders. Today Austin100 is led by Lawton Cummings , an incredible female leader that Brett and his cofounder, Josh Baer, recruited to the cause.

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swombat.com

JULY 15, 2012

Im the CTO and cofounder of GrantTree , Woobius , and Vocalix, a full-time entrepreneur since 2007. Reading business books and articles, watching screencasts and interviews, is utterly useless beyond the first few weeks where youre actually learning a rough map of what stuff there is available for you to draw from. swombat.com.

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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. Every time a consumer clicked on a hotel to book a room, TripAdvisor would charge the hotel something. Suddenly, everything began to (literally) click. Comparing TripAdvisor with Akamai.

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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.

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Up and Running

JANUARY 7, 2016

Becky, with her written resolution and book. “I I work with best-selling author Melissa G Wilson, a Chicago publisher, to produce books for Fortune 500 companies and CEOs. I just published my book, “The Homeless Entrepreneur.” My name is Jessica and I’m the founder of Pixelkeet and cofounder of CrowdMed. .

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