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Why Online Video Just Took One More Big Step to Legitimacy

Both Sides of the Table

Another major hire was Ryan Lissack who joined as CTO. Ryan was not only a senior engineer at Salesforce.com (he ran mobile and also ran content management) but was also my cofounder at Koral and lead architect at BuildOnline. Ynon started as shareholder, board member & advisor and switches to full-time executive.

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How Do You Want to Spend Your Next 4 Years of Your Life?

Steve Blank

Now that you’ve gotten to know your potential channel and customers, regardless of how much money you’re going to make, will you enjoy working with these customers for the next 3 or 4 years? (see 0:30 in the video below). ——– 1. Do you want to spend the next 3 or 4 years of your life doing this?

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Hear how the Lean Startup began — and helped one company find success: Episode 2 on Sirius XM Channel 111: Eric Ries and Jon Sebastiani

Steve Blank

My guests on Bay Area Ventures on Wharton Business Radio on Sirius XM Channel 111 were: Eric Ries , entrepreneur and author of the New York Times bestseller, The Lean Startup. He later co-founded and served as CTO of IMVU and then authored The Lean Startup. Is it Whole Foods or is it 7-Eleven. If you can’t hear the clip, click here.

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Finding a Technical Cofounder

bizthoughts.mikelee.org

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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Smart Bear Live 8: Edwin from MeetingKing.com

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

Patrick: You can channel Cathy Sierra on this and say that the users, you become a Meeting King. Well yeah, you could potentially find a cofounder. There’s a third alternative, and that’s a cofounder. Edwin: You get a cofounder onboard. Reid Hoffman has some interesting stuff about cofounders.

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How and where to find a co-founder for your startup

The Next Web

By identifying the necessary roles, you can figure out how many cofounders you need. Social media channels can surprisingly lead you to potential partners as well. Better yet, niche job boards, like Dice for technical hires, can cater to your specific needs. How to go about it?

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I’m Excited to Welcome Aaron Batalion to Lightspeed!

Lightspeed Venture Partners

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. He became an in-demand advisor and individual investor in other startups , sharing the lessons learned through his own founder journey.