Seeing Both Sides

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

Decades ago, the thesis of Yossi Vardi , a prolific technology entrepreneur who has invested in 75 Israeli startups, was that Israeli entrepreneurs should seek quick exit opportunities through global corporations interested in buying a window into Israeli talent and technology. Today, this thesis is less relevant. American VCs are critical.

Israel

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.

Technical Cofounder

BeyondVC

APRIL 3, 2006

Kinnernet is a techie geek camp organized and run by Yossi Vardi (cofounder of ICQ). One of the discussion groups that I led with Simon Levene (heads up Corp Dev in Europe for Yahoo and Yair Goldfinger (founder and CTO of ICQ and Dotomi) was titled "Are Internet VCs Dead."

Technical Cofounder

BeyondVC

APRIL 3, 2006

Kinnernet is a techie geek camp organized and run by Yossi Vardi (cofounder of ICQ). One of the discussion groups that I led with Simon Levene (heads up Corp Dev in Europe for Yahoo and Yair Goldfinger (founder and CTO of ICQ and Dotomi) was titled "Are Internet VCs Dead."

Technical Cofounder

SoCal CTO

MARCH 16, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Friday, March 16, 2007 F2F Still Matters Kathy Sierra has a great post today: Face-to-Face Trumps Twitter, Blogs, Podcasts, Video. And in fact all our globally-connecting-social-networking tools are making face-to-face more, not less desirable. Find avenues to network with these folks.

Technical Cofounder

David Teten

AUGUST 20, 2019

The Boston Consulting Group and MassChallenge , a US-based global network of accelerators, partnered to study why “ women-owned startups are a better bet ”. For example, more women report being asked during their presentations to establish that they understand basic technical knowledge.

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The Next Web

JULY 20, 2013

And if they do, they complain about lack of global potential or misunderstand my product completely. “Do Some large VCs in Silicon Valley or even superangels like Ron Conway only look at investment opportunities that were introduced by their network: colleagues from other funds, angel investors, industry experts, advisors etc.

Silicon Valley

Steve Blank

JULY 27, 2015

and his work helping other Indian entrepreneurs through TiE, the Indus Entrepreneur network. Steve also teaches my Lean LaunchPad course at Berkeley and Stanford, and is the cofounder of Kinetrope, a product design shop working on bringing to market devices in the area of entertainment and IoT.

Channel

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 25, 2018

Advisors and investors need to see your whole story in as few as ten slides. Participate in networking platforms and events for support. You need to recruit advisors, key partners, and cofounders well before approaching investors. Execute a pilot rollout before attempting to scale globally.

Technical Cofounder

YoungUpstarts

JUNE 18, 2012

However, they tend to be extremely difficult to navigate especially if you do not have a cofounder from and/or experience in that country. Global from day one (GD1). Startups in this category have the know how, mindset, confidence and product differentiation to address the global market from day one. Indonesia from day one.

Singapore

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 15, 2018

I realize now that these two were near-perfect co-founders, with Bill having the technical passion, and Steve bringing the business experience from his prior stint at Procter and Gamble. Network to find co-founders as you network to find investors. Seek input from seasoned investors and peers.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 6, 2019

You are looking for cofounders that can help you build a product. You have finally found a cofounder that can take care of the startup. Networking. You won’t make it big unless you have a network. Global expansion. Yes, you should be going for global expansion. cases you will fail. Commitment. Bottom-line.

Startup

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.

Founder

Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

At scale and with definitive focus and purpose, OHUB will reduce the global racial income, wealth and opportunity gap to ensure that all of our planet’s stakeholders access economic safeguards as a prerequisite for civil and human dignity. Block Party, Live Remote, Tech & Startup Popups, Food Trucks, SWAG & Giveaways 12:00 PM?—?8:00

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