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. But these days with all the resources on the Internet and elsewhere, there is no excuse for not keeping up on the latest insights, best practices, and technology in the area of hiring, motivating, and training.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

You can subscribe to Smart Bear Live on iTunes (please review the podcast as well!) … and if you’d like to appear on a future episode of Smart Bear Live, send an email to Patrick.Foley@microsoft.com to schedule a recording with Jason. And please tweet your thanks to Software Promotions for sponsoring Smart Bear Live! Jason: Right.

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Cofounder Technical Review Chicago Technical Cofounder 199

Lightspeed Venture Partners

OCTOBER 7, 2012

I’ve been writing up reviews of this season’s Shark Tank pitches from a silicon valley VCs perspective. 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. BACK 9 DIPS.

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Technical Review Technical Cofounder Valuation Pre-Money Valuation 110

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. TRUSTPILOT REVIEW. FINDING A COFOUNDER.

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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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Japan Technical Cofounder Silicon Valley Houston 78

David Teten

JANUARY 19, 2021

Our categorization is not a technical one. Additionally, Flexible VC can accommodate all types of companies, not just asset-lite, tech-enabled companies.”. 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. .

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Cofounder Technical Review Equity Dividend 78

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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Coder Technical Review Social Media Technical Cofounder 60

Seeing Both Sides

AUGUST 16, 2012

“TripAdvisor is to travel reviews what Kleenex is to tissues.”. . Founded in 2000 by Stephen Kaufer and Langley Steinert, Boston-based TripAdvisor is a travel website that provides reviews and other information for consumers about travel destinations around the world. Henry Harteveldt, Forrester. .

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Part-Time VPE Software Review Costa Rica Technical Review 54

Hearpreneur

JULY 30, 2016

Thanks to Selena Drake, Drake Books & Media. #2 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). 6 – More Women in Tech. I’d love to see more women get into tech.

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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.

Japan 28

Japan Technical Cofounder Silicon Valley Houston 28

Up and Running

MARCH 1, 2016

Everything you see around you—every item you own, every book you’ve read, every app you use, every website you browse—was once nothing more than an idea in someone else’s head. To find out what people are complaining about, read forums, turn to your social media accounts, and read reviews. That airplane thousands of miles above you.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

MARCH 11, 2014

And when you look at the tools that we use, I mean we’ve made so many technological advances, but really to manage a meeting there’s not a practical tool available. Does that make sense to you and you’re like yes, I can get a million of those guys just like Fresh Books did and so forth? Why not get a partner?

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 15, 2014

Maybe you want to write an app or a book. In the last five years, I’ve managed to find the time to write, publish and promote multiple books, including two award-winning bestsellers , develop a web application, maintain a blog, and present at conferences. My blog posts, in turn, get repurposed into books. Apocalypse.

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Technical Review Technical Cofounder Software Review Cofounder 196

bizthoughts.mikelee.org

MARCH 8, 2012

BizThoughts Thoughts about business, technology, the web & entrepreneurship About Booklist Contact Nov 15 2011 Finding a Technical Cofounder By Mike Lee Categories: Entrepreneurship , Leadership Since I have a technical background, I get about one offer a month to join some engineering team, or to be a technical cofounder.

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venturehacks.com

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

SUPPORTED BY Products Archives @venturehacks Books AngelList About RSS How to pick a co-founder by Naval Ravikant on November 12th, 2009 Update : Also see our 40-minute interview on this topic. He can be technical, but he must be able to wield the tools of influence. Venture Hacks Good advice for startups.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

NOVEMBER 21, 2011

How cofounders can collaborate without going crazy. At Smart Bear we were selling a code review tool, and if you paid $600 for Perforce, it was very hard for me to charge $600 hundred for an add-on to Perforce that did code review. Melissa: Jason, I have your book. They expected it to be a lot less, like $100.

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Widget Cofounder Technical Review Software Review 204

Up and Running

JULY 28, 2022

It covers creations such as music, books, sculpture, paintings, and films. Innovation can be a product, design, or a process of doing things to solve a technical problem. A founders’ agreement is a legal contract defining and governing the relationship between cofounders. Maintain clean books.

Small Business 167

Small Business Intellectual Property Cofounder Software Review 167

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 24, 2011

How cofounders can collaborate without going crazy. Well they’re already burning, so I would suggest as you move toward a paid model, at the same time, you start diligently building a network of alliances with people who already have a good reason to promote your service. You mean tech support? Jason: Help?

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reidhoffman.org

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

we weren’t the natural leader of a market or technology trend that everyone was paying attention to, we didn’t have substantial organic growth, and. Most technology revolutions are founded on one or two simple concepts. And Spoke had more comprehensive data because they were uploading entire address books. we had no revenue.

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Entrepreneur Viral Revenue Networking 111

crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 23, 2012

Stop looking for cofounders and help them find you instead | The Startup Toolkit Blog - [link]. Don’t roadblock – Make it dead-simple for your advisor to help you | QUIBB - [link]. 26 Free Fonts For Designers | Tech Design Blog – [link]. 27 Mind Blowing Book Cover Designs | NaughtyDesigner – [link].

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Social Media Small Business Design Cofounder 107

techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Tech Gadgets Mobile Enterprise GreenTech CrunchBase TechCrunch TV Disrupt SF More TechCrunch TV Beta Invites Crunchies Elevator Pitches Gillmor Gang Podcasts TechCrunch Europe TechCrunch Trends TechCrunch France TechCrunch Japan Whats Hot: Android Apple Facebook Google Microsoft Twitter Yahoo Zynga Subscribe: From Nothing To Something.

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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? 24 Comments • Nov 8, 2010 I love this answer. Rockstar v.

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steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

automatic links to generated images Rietveld - asynchronous code reviews on changesets Tech*if*er0*urs – blog on roadmap for learning rails Best free programming books Project Management Basecamp - web-based project management and collaboration tool. WebSequenceDiagrams - sketch sequence diagrams.

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