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10 Attributes Of The Perfect Partner For Your Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

The challenge is to recognize and recruit that ideal partner match early with minimal cost and risk. If both of you are experts at software development, even though one loves design and the other loves coding, that still won’t get the marketing done. This is a critical element of a good relationship, but a tough one.

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10 Ways Your Startup Co-Founder Is Like A Good Spouse

Startup Professionals Musings

The challenge is to recognize and recruit that ideal partner match early with minimal cost and risk. If both of you are experts at software development, even though one loves design and the other loves coding, that still won’t get the marketing done. This is a critical element of a good relationship, but a tough one.

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10 Key Traits Of An Ideal Entrepreneur Partner

Startup Professionals Musings

If both of you are experts at software development, even though one loves design and the other loves coding, that still won’t get the marketing done. Look at the big picture first of development, finance, and marketing/sales. This is a critical element of a good relationship, but a tough one. Complementary skills.

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Why “saving money” and “ROI” are probably the wrong way to sell your product

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

I can’t remember how many times at Smart Bear I tried to sell Code Collaborator with the argument that it “saves you money.” Code Collaborator is tool which helps software developers review each other’s work, just like an editor of a book. The trouble is that software isn’t tangible.

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How to Pick a Partner Who Will Amplify Your Efforts

Startup Professionals Musings

The challenge is to recognize and recruit that ideal partner match early with minimal cost and risk. If both of you are experts at software development, even though one loves design and the other loves coding, that still won’t get the marketing done. This is a critical element of a good relationship, but a tough one.

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Building Your MVP as a Non-Technical Founder

SoCal CTO

Examples might be a recommendation engine, search engine, matching engine or something with a complex interface. We needed the matching algorithm. Review the code being built. There are a few cases where you somewhat need to see the system operating to have a sense of the value. eHarmony for me fell into that camp.

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10 Partner Qualities to Test Before Sharing Equity

Startup Professionals Musings

If both of you are experts at software development, even though one loves design and the other loves coding, that still won’t get the marketing done. Look at the big picture first of development, finance, and marketing/sales. This is a critical element of a good relationship, but a tough one. Complementary skills.

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