Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 9, 2020

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 operations superstar.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

I always tell entrepreneurs that two heads are better than one, so the first task in many startups is finding a co-founder or two. Giving a co-founder a salary won’t get you the “fire in the belly” you want. Each co-founder should get equity for value, based on these key variables: Lived a key role in a previous startup.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 17, 2023

But these look for founders who have a technical or business model insight and a team. Accelerators provide these teams with technical and business expertise and connect them to a network of other founders and advisors. Carlos stirred his coffee. The Alternative: Venture Studios. Most people don’t fit that pattern.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 29, 2011

The report was co-authored by Berkeley and Stanford faculty members along with other contributors including Steve Blank , the Sandbox Network and blackbox teams. Founders that learn are more successful. Investors who provide hands-on help have little or no effect on the company’s operational performance.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 6, 2013

If you are a young startup founder, how do you find that CEO or other executive for your “dream team” to close on funding or complement your skills to kick start your company? Also, trusted advisors and experienced investors should be polled for good candidates. Craft an operational plan and make it work. Everybody wins.

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The Next Web

JANUARY 30, 2014

In many cases, these entrepreneurs are on the hunt for co-founders to help them build their businesses. I previously wrote about various roles and responsibilities within a startup’s management team , so figure out what role your desired co-founder can fill. The problem? What skills are you lacking? How to go about it?

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 29, 2020

This start-up is headed by industry-leading professionals including its CEO and co-founder, Ido Susan, and Hillel Kobrinsky the CSO and co-founder. By disrupting the Service Provider space, DriveNets effectively offers operators many more solutions to cost effectively scale up and achieve organizational goals.

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Steve Blank

MAY 29, 2011

The email continued, &# The problem I’m working on is that many founders are either making uninformed decisions or inefficiently learning the new skills they need. The solution I’m exploring is a just in time learning methodology that accelerates founders’ learning curve by aggregating relevant content, peers and mentors.&#.

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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 operations superstar.

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blog.nahurst.com

JULY 19, 2010

Nathan Hursts Blog Thoughts on Software, Technology, and Startups « Back to blog Im on the technical side of entrepreneurship in NYC. The graphic below balances the risks cofounders take with their relative contributions to help answer this question. I love programming, board games, and my wife. This doesnt have to be the case.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 24, 2016

I always tell entrepreneurs that two heads are better than one, so the first task in many startups is finding a co-founder or two. Giving a co-founder a salary won’t get you the “fire in the belly” you want. Each co-founder should get equity for value, based on these key variables: Lived a key role in a previous startup.

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blog.launchbit.com

MARCH 8, 2012

cofounders. technical cofounder. Why you can(t) recruit a technical cofounder. We know, however, that at some point, especially if you yourself are not technically-savvy, there will be a time where getting some technical expertise on the team is essential to continue progressing. Viewed times.

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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 operations superstar. The trusted leader.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 25, 2018

Co-mingling personal and business funds and accounts creates legal risk and tax liability, and makes your efforts look like a hobby. Advisors and investors need to see your whole story in as few as ten slides. You need to recruit advisors, key partners, and cofounders well before approaching investors.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 21, 2014

What about hiring, taxes, llcs, operations, scaling? “Begin with the end in mind or risk being side tracked” Advice from James Griffith, Co-founder of Mous. “Phone accessories is an industry which operates at light speed. Advice from Samantha Strom, Co-founder of Hazel Lane.

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techcrunch.com

MARCH 8, 2012

The Trouble With Non-tech Cofounders. This is a guest post by Scott Allison, CEO and founder of Teamly.com. I want to reflect on my experience as a non-technical founder and reassess my original decision – almost two years ago – to stick to what I’m good at, and not waste time learning to code. guest author.

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Mike Michalowicz

AUGUST 10, 2015

Joseph is an Achieved CEO/CTO investor and strategic advisor. A long-time entrepreneur, Joseph founded/co-founded many technological companies throughout the years. Ethan is the Founder & CEO of MyTime, a startup that allows consumers to find and book appointments from over 2.5 Our Guests. Joseph Shemesh (left).

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

by Alejandro Cremades , cofounder of Panthera Advisors and author of “ The Art of Startup Fundraising: Pitching Investors, Negotiating the Deal, and Everything Else Entrepreneurs Need to Know “ Why should entrepreneurs intentionally be generous when negotiating with investors? Generosity is nowhere on their radar.

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The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 7, 2013

Vik Singh is CEO and cofounder of Infer , which recently raised a $10 million Series A round from Redpoint Ventures and provides data-powered applications to companies like Box, Jive, Nitro, Tableau, and Zendesk. . Build and depend on a dream team of enterprise-savvy advisors and doers. Read this , then re-read it about five times.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 7, 2016

By Raj Narayanaswamy, cofounder and Co-CEO, Replicon. With some of the top technical universities in the world, including the University of Toronto, the University of BC and McGill and Waterloo, Canada offers an enormous amount of tech talent without the cutthroat competitiveness of Silicon Valley. While the U.S.

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The Next Web

JANUARY 26, 2014

Ohad Frankfurt is the cofounder and CEO of Swayy , a personalized content curation and management platform. Sometimes, it was a technical issue that other founders helped us to solve. They allowed us to better understand our target market although it is not physically near to where the company is operating from.

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Steve Blank

MAY 11, 2009

But the team believed adding video as an integral part of an operating system and user experience (where there had only been text and still images) would be transformative. 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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David Teten

JANUARY 19, 2021

(co-written with Jamie Finney, Founding Partner at Greater Colorado Venture Fund. From RBI, Flexible VCs borrow the ability to reap meaningful returns without demanding founders build for an exit. Our categorization is not a technical one. His work on VC and small communities can be found at greatercolorado.vc/blog. Of the Inc.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2018

Brunner (@heatherjbrunner) | Twitter Preston James Co-founder & CEO DivInc Preston is at the center of everything Diversity & Inclusion in Austin. Advisor, Austin Mayor Steve Adler Eugene has long operated at the intersection of business, government & nonprofits, locally and nationally.

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Reid Hoffman

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

Ito found a consultant who obtained a letter from the Japanese financial services agency stating that PayPal could launch its service immediately so long as the site wasn’t in Japanese; English-language websites weren’t legally considered to be operating in Japan. Look for people who are one year, two years, five years ahead of you.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 9, 2009

And instead of design, engineering, QA, and operations we have a solution team implementing a startup-centric version of agile development. sachinrekhi : "Visionary customers are as smart if not smarter then the founders" #leanstartup Theres no skipping the chasm. MeganMurray : "Behind every technical problem is a human problem.

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Eric Friedman

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

Company is a great fit: they host, advise, mentor, lend a shoulder, and provide a place to founders and teams. These things are right up my alley because it’s what I love doing and align with my goal to be the best advisor to early-stage founders. And all in the heart of NYC!

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

I don’t know how it operates behind closed doors. 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. And if I tried to find out?

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thenetsetter.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Even less-obvious founders like the internet media personality and Digg founder Kevin Rose actually began in computer science. Are you inventing new technical solutions to a problem? In the cases of all the founders I just mentioned the answer was yes.

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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. TripAdvisor, in effect, was a model lean start-up with an engineering-driven, product-focused founder. I prefer to keep it separate and give it some CEO love.

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Up and Running

JANUARY 7, 2016

The gentleman who started CIC, and my instructor David Durovy, founder of The Post Institute, are interested in seeing if the book can be used locally and statewide to help the homeless start thinking about starting their own business! My name is Jessica and I’m the founder of Pixelkeet and cofounder of CrowdMed. .

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Up and Running

MAY 12, 2015

Drawing on advice from our own Tim Berry, founder of Palo Alto Software and Josh Cochrane, our VP of Product Development, I’ve broken down a few of the different options for entrepreneurs looking for feedback on their pitch. The three who agreed to do it had some semblance of a relationship with the founders beforehand.

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www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Advisor. ); STARTUP. Office and Operations. Chip Morse , cofounder and partner with Morse, Barnes-Brown & Pendleton P.C., The offering to a consultant may affect your securities compliance in later offerings and will certainly add to further dilution to founders," Durkin says. Newsletters. Subscriptions. Franchises.

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Reid Hoffman

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

Ito found a consultant who obtained a letter from the Japanese financial services agency stating that PayPal could launch its service immediately so long as the site wasn’t in Japanese; English-language websites weren’t legally considered to be operating in Japan. Look for people who are one year, two years, five years ahead of you.

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Up and Running

MARCH 1, 2016

See Also: Got “Founder Fit”? Your price may affect business operations. Blackbox cofounder Bjoern Lasse Herrmann says, “Too many startups start building first without talking to customers. If your invention is simpler, it could be more feasible to begin manufacturing operations in order to produce it.

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Seeing Both Sides

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

This post was co-authored with Omri Stern and originally appeared in Harvard Business Review. We selected this benchmark because it reflects the phase in which companies have proven product viability, achieved initial product/market fit, and are now expanding sales and growing more complex operations. American VCs are critical.

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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. So it was from ’91 to ’94 that I programmed.

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