Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 22, 2011

Want meet one of his key investors, USV partner Albert Wenger ? Or how about the inventor of the Internet? It is called, “ the new rules for the Internet bubble &# and he just nails it. This time on mysterious party bus to nowhere but situated with the CTO & Cofounder of Living Social, Aaron Batalion.

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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

AUGUST 25, 2017

This movement, coupled with free websites and apps, makes it possible for almost any technical person to start a business. In my view as an advisor to new ventures, the Maker Movement is an integral part of a new age of the entrepreneur. Provides networking with cofounders and strategic partners.

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www.virtuosimedia.com

MARCH 8, 2012

Internet Security. Home ▶ Businesses ▶ Startup Business Advice ▶ Current Page How To Find A Technical Cofounder For Your Online Business Idea. This article should also serve as a starting guide for programmers who are approached about becoming technical co-founders. Business Articles. Accounting.

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startupbaltimore.org

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Finding a Technical Cofounder by Mike Subelsky on September 17, 2010 Advice View Comments Over the past 18 months I’ve had the same conversation with about ten entrepreneurs looking to start a software-based business. As Dave Troy put it, it all boils down to this: “In Entrepreneurial Ecosystems, Cofounders Find You!&#

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 21, 2014

Get a technical co-founder. The toughest part is that my cofounder and I are non-technical co-founders. “To launch fast, have your development plans and partners locked down” Advice from Andrew Thomas, Co-founder of SkyBell. It’s the blessing and curse of the entrepreneur.

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Mike Michalowicz

AUGUST 10, 2015

Joseph is an Achieved CEO/CTO investor and strategic advisor. He was also Cofounder & CEO of Redbeacon, which allowed consumers to request bids for home services. Ethan also the worked in a number of internet strategy and marketing roles at The Clorox Company, Buy.com, and McKinsey & Company. Corporate Partners.

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blog.captainrecruiter.com

MARCH 8, 2012

Technical Co-Founders Are A Myth. An Internet entrepreneur needs a website. 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.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 27, 2013

If a VC asks his advisors what they think of your deal and they dislike it, it’s dead. If you are looking to add experienced people to your team but can’t afford to pay employees, look at finding a cofounder or using venture labor (hiring someone you pay in equity instead of cash). Horrifying, but true. Being invisible or forgotten.

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

NOVEMBER 12, 2015

The path that led Aaron Batalion to join Lightspeed as my partner, focusing on consumer investments, is one of those relationship driven stories. I didn’t know anything about the internet, but I knew that he was a very smart guy, so I called him and asked if I could come. Aaron was not an introverted CTO.

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

NOVEMBER 12, 2015

The path that led Aaron Batalion to join Lightspeed as my partner, focusing on consumer investments, is one of those relationship driven stories. I didn’t know anything about the internet, but I knew that he was a very smart guy, so I called him and asked if I could come. Aaron was not an introverted CTO.

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www.kernelmag.com

MARCH 8, 2012

The Scene Developers Nailing that elusive technical co-founder. Recently, my friend Harjeet Taggar, partner at US seed fund YCombinator, tweeted that, increasingly, the problems faced by start-ups they fund are being addressed by other start-ups. There are certainly many talented technical people out there. Yiannopoulos.

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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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Lightspeed Venture Partners

APRIL 12, 2016

The partners here had made many great investments in consumer companies before then — companies that resulted in successful IPOs like BlueNile and eHealth in the late 90s. For that reason I was thrilled when Aaron Batalion joined as my partner in November. In addition, Jon Steinberg has also joined us, as a Venture Partner.

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reidhoffman.org

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

× At Greylock , my partners and I are driven by one guiding mission: always help entrepreneurs. the consumer internet landscape in 2004 vs. today. In 2004, the consumer internet was just beginning to rebound. In 2004, investors regained interest in the consumer internet again. Reid Hoffman. Reid Hoffman.

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Ben's Blog

APRIL 28, 2010

When my partner Marc wrote his post describing our firm , the most controversial component of our investment strategy was our preference for founding CEOs. VMware—Diane Greene. (*) While not technically cofounders, Andy Grove and Thomas Watson, Sr. “You’re just a rent-a-rapper, your rhymes are minute-maid.

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mashable.com

JUNE 8, 2010

The Internet can be a tremendous resource in finding the right people to build your team. Cons: People advertising services, looking for advice, seeking investment capital, and looking for cofounders are all dumping their comments into the same place, which can make it hard to browse. Media Relations Specialist at Practic.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 24, 2011

How cofounders can collaborate without going crazy. Kind of the model that Game Fit sites have where you partner up with somebody and you support each other as you try and do one more lap or push up. We actually, one of our partners is a fluent speaker of Spanish, which is one of the reasons we brought him on.

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Hunter Walker

MAY 15, 2015

Sara Chipps , cofounder/CEO of Jewelbots was one of them although most enjoyably, she reached out to me initially because she thought I had something to do with Homebrew, the Mac package manager and not Homebrew the venture fund. She said something that solidified my belief that she’s an amazing partner.

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Bryce Dot VC

APRIL 8, 2015

hit the Internet on January 1st. Then we cheered her on from the sidelines as she cofounded Lean Startup Productions (LSP) with her business partner Eric Ries. Behind the scenes, she’s been an informal advisor and sounding board for the indie.vc It has been a pretty wild ride since our little landing page for indie.vc

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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? Thanks to years of internet progress there are existing technologies that virtually anyone can piggy back off.

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www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Advisor. ); STARTUP. Internet and Online Business. Durkin , managing partner with the Boston -based law firm Lucash, Gesmer & Updegrove LLP. Chip Morse , cofounder and partner with Morse, Barnes-Brown & Pendleton P.C., FROM OUR PARTNERS. ); ); ); ADVERTISEMENT. Entrepreneur news from reporter Eric Markowitz.

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David Teten

JANUARY 28, 2019

My former Partner John Frankel of ff Venture Capital observes that 20 years ago, the defining movie of the generation was “Wall Street”. This is a topic we care a lot about, given HOF Capital’s long-term strategy for partnering with universities and my forthcoming book on “ hacking the university ”. “CEO is the new Analyst.”.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 7, 2017

Three years after that, I was fortunate enough to find a firm, Land Carroll & Blair, with a same client-oriented mentality and partnered with them. After creating many successful start-ups- from internet fashion companies to home market businesses- I spent several years researching a category that intrigued me from a health-standpoint.

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Up and Running

MARCH 1, 2016

The internet. Boris Wertz, founding partner of Version One Ventures, believes that if you’ve worked in an industry you’re passionate about for a long time, you may know something about the market that nobody else knows. That airplane thousands of miles above you. The memory foam pillow on your bed. The headache pills. The toothbrush.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 22, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Thursday, March 22, 2007 Discussion Creation Among Bloggers - LinkedIn, Blogging and Discussion Groups Ive been participating in a Yahoo Group that are users of LinkedIn and who are Bloggers: [link] Its an interesting group of folks from diverse backgrounds.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 20, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Tuesday, March 20, 2007 Time Rich, Time Poor and Apple Jeremy Liew at Lightspeed Venture Partners has an interesting post: Time Rich or Time Poor? He has twenty years’ experience as a CTO. He has been the CTO for several start-ups, most notably eHarmony.

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www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

The negativity either impacted investment funding (venture capital fell off a cliff in 2009) or the customers they were targeted as was the case for Untitled Partners who were building a platform for fractional art ownership. We were obviously wrong about Untitled Partners’ ability to grow through the subsequent downturn. #19

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Here’s the rub: in consumer internet (and often enterprise), if your founding team doesn’t have the chops to get a prototype of your product out and in the hands of a blogger to test and write about, you might as well save yourself a lot of pain – you’re not going anywhere. I don’t know any developers. I need money for the servers.

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David Teten

MARCH 14, 2018

My Partners at HOF Capital are younger than I am, which means that we have a half-century horizon for the franchise we are building. – Build out low-cost force multipliers such as scouts , Advisors, Entrepreneurs in Residence, Venture Partners, and so on. So we think about scaling a lot.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

In consumer internet, that usually means one front-end user-facing developer, one back-end server-side developer, and ultimately a business person (details will come in a later post). This time things like, Patent, copyrights, other basic rules like technical issues and complications were something i was expecting from you.

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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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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2018

Pierce Burnette knows the meaning of “humble beginnings” and has combined her intelligence quotient (IQ), emotional intelligence (EQ), entrepreneurial spirit, and technical knowledge to forge successful careers in engineering, information technology, and education. Joe Beard joined Perot Jain as a Partner in 2015.

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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. Reply Quora , on March 12, 2011 at 12:54 am said: What are the free software tools and online services one should leverage for an internet start-up just getting started from an idea?… Thanks for your work.

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