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

Steve Blank

I used to be in startups where I was dealing with engineers designing our microprocessors or selling supercomputers to research scientists solving really interesting technical problems. Is it a small business that hits $4 million in revenue in four years and $8 million in ten years? My customers were 14-year old boys.

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The Playbook for Scale Up Nation

Seeing Both Sides

To answer these questions, we built a database of 112 Israeli companies founded between 1996 and 2013 that have met or exceeded $20 million in revenue. Although the technical team often remains in Israel, many of the executives interviewed recommend departing for the U.S. What are the challenges and lessons of scaling up?

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How to Scale a Venture Capital (or Private Equity) Fund

David Teten

– Build out low-cost force multipliers such as scouts , Advisors, Entrepreneurs in Residence, Venture Partners, and so on. VC is a “get rich slow” business, because most VC Partners will not see a carry check for 5-10 years, after waiting for both liquidity events and for LPs to be paid first.

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Where is the best place to find a rockstar developer to bring it to life?

www.quora.com

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? Maybe, dear asker, you do not need a technical "co-founder" at all.