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Working with Developers

SoCal CTO

It may give non-technical founders a bit more insight into working styles when it comes to developers. If you’ve ever seen an athlete use a big word in a slightly wrong way, that’s how you sound when you use technical language and you don’t quite know what it means. I.e., they need a developer more than they need a CTO.

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Why Online Video Just Took One More Big Step to Legitimacy

Both Sides of the Table

The future of the Internet is video. 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. 10 signs Internet TV is Ready to Disrupt the Industry.

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6 Hiring Principles To Grow The Best New Venture Team

Startup Professionals Musings

In my role as a business advisor, I see successful businesses most often emerging from great teams rather than great products. But these days with all the resources on the Internet and elsewhere, there is no excuse for not keeping up on the latest insights, best practices, and technology in the area of hiring, motivating, and training.

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Tune In, Turn On, Drop Out – The Startup Genome Project

Steve Blank

He set up Blackbox.vc, a seed accelerator for technology startups (and one of the tour stops for entrepreneurs from around the world.) They went to work gathering deep knowledege of what makes successful Internet startups. Max and his partners interviewed and analyzed over 650 early-stage Internet startups. better user growth.

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14 Interesting Findings From The Startup Genome Project

YoungUpstarts

They also over-invest in solo founders and founding teams without technical cofounders despite indicators that show that these teams have a much lower probability of success. Technical-heavy founding teams are 3.3x Balanced teams with one technical founder and one business founder raise 30% more money , have 2.9x

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Startup Grind Turns the Tables on Mark Suster

Both Sides of the Table

” We talked about my influences as a younger person and what got me started in technology and entrepreneurship. It was all technical. By the way, this was still pre-Netscape, pre-Internet. So I joined this group called Network Solutions, we did computer networking, the predecessor to the internet.

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8 Steps To Starting A New Venture With Limited Funds

Startup Professionals Musings

In the early Internet days, it would cost a million dollars to get this far. On the other hand, everyone is doing it, so that means more competition, and the market and technology are changing faster than ever before. Advisors and investors need to see your whole story in as few as ten slides.