Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 24, 2016

Building a new business is quite different from an executive role in a mature company, so people from these backgrounds are often a liability. Value is embodied in previous success with investors, proven problem solving ability, and having built and executed a business plan with minimal resources. But don’t get greedy.

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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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viniciusvacanti.com

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

Home About Contact Me How To Make It as a First-Time Entrepreneur Vinicius Vacanti Guide to Finding a Technical Co-Founder September 7, 2010 | View Comments Steve Job's Technical Co-Founder “I’ve got this HUGE idea. I just need to find a technical co-founder.&# I was in this situation and we barely escaped.

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Up and Running

JULY 28, 2022

Innovation can be a product, design, or a process of doing things to solve a technical problem. Trademark – Property rights issued for a sign, logo, or word used to distinguish a product/service from other businesses’ products/services. The right time for drafting a founders agreement is in the early stages of business.

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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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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 23, 2014

One of the main reasons why hopeful business owners don’t succeed is not because they don’t have a worthy product or a well-thought-out business plan, but because they’re afraid of rejection. Maybe you’re using too much technical jargon. The problem is many entrepreneurs aren’t willing to take that risk.

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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. Uncertainties abound.

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crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2012

Business Plans Are an Historic Artifact | WSJ – [link]. Questions to Ask Potential Cofounders: The Master List | Founder Dating - [link]. Business Plans Are an Historic Artifact | WSJ – [link]. 5 things a non-technical founder can do - [link]. How to Get Startup Ideas - [link].

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Tim Keane

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

 Investors would like to see lowest cost - but with certainty.  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.  Investors would like to see lowest cost - but with certainty.

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Up and Running

MAY 12, 2015

Enter a competition: Business plan and pitching competitions are a great way to get targeted, specific feedback; after all, you are putting yourself into a context where getting feedback is a main goal, as opposed to getting funding (though plenty of competitions do include a monetary prize). Where do you find a mentor?

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shelfmade.wordpress.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

27 am Finding Founders Jump to Comments One of the most common questions that I hear at networking events and on social news sites deals with finding a co-founder with hacking skills, specifically when the person asking the question isn’t technical. Look at these 2 ways of approaching a potential cofounder. Great post.

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www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Advisor. ); STARTUP. Writing A Business Plan. Running A Home-Based Business. Naming a Business. Financing a Small Business. Buying a Small Business. RUNNING A BUSINESS. Chip Morse , cofounder and partner with Morse, Barnes-Brown & Pendleton P.C., Sales & Marketing | Wednesdays.

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Steve Blank

MAY 11, 2009

In less than a month they designed a low-cost video-capture board that plugged into the Mac and allowed you to connect a video camera and VCR. 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.

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Up and Running

MARCH 1, 2016

Of course, you could also calculate your price based on the cost of materials and manufacture. Your price may affect business operations. At Palo Alto Software, we use the One-Page Pitch feature in LivePlan to quickly validate new business ideas. You can do this on your own too using the lean planning methodology.

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www.paulgraham.com

AUGUST 1, 2008

This is a problem for founders, because it makes raising money take longer and cost more in legal fees. And in particular, younger and more technical founders will be able to start startups than could before. Back when it cost a lot to start a startup, you had to convince investors to let you do it.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 24, 2011

How cofounders can collaborate without going crazy. I think you’d find yourself, you’re going to drop a lot of people when you instantly mention, ‘This costs money.’ Bob: I think the key thing is, remember the advice that we all got somewhere along the line of, you need a business plan?

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

This time things like, Patent, copyrights, other basic rules like technical issues and complications were something i was expecting from you. He said that you need a reliable business plan, six months of cash on hand, and cheap labor. Finding your cofounders [link] [.] Eli abhay, Aaron Patzer said the most on this topic.

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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?" you can steal an idea just from hearing it, it is not really a good defensible business idea. Yishan Wong • Nov 8, 2010 lol.if

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steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

Blogs (VC): Antonio Rodriguez [link] – A very technical VC at Matrix partners who can actually code. This kind of search normally costs more than $500… Test your name [link] so you don’t end up with a name that is confusingly similar to an existing trademark.

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