Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

The next default of waiting until later is equally bad, since partners who bow out early will still expect an equal share of that first billion you make later. Co-founders only able to work part-time, with responsibility and major income sources elsewhere, don’t carry the same risk as others with more operational responsibility.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 6, 2013

There you can connect with thousands of potential executives and partners, or find a planned meetup in a city near you. Also, trusted advisors and experienced investors should be polled for good candidates. Craft an operational plan and make it work. They need an operational CEO who knows the market and the marketing game.

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Steve Blank

MAY 29, 2011

Max and his partners interviewed and analyzed over 650 early-stage Internet startups. 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

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 13, 2013

It was all technical. You know, the weird thing, Derek, and I should probably let you speak some time, but I was deeply technical when I went into Andersen consulting, and I got paid much less than engineers who graduated, because I had a degree in economics. Technical founder. And my specialty was computer networks.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 18, 2018

Thus I was happily surprised when I found the classic book, “ The Tech Entrepreneur’s Survival Guide ,” by Bernd Schoner, PhD, and cofounder of ThingMagic, which leans heavily on the people side of the equation. You need to have a technical genius on the team to get your startup product off the ground. The operations superstar.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 25, 2018

These days you can create a C-corp or LLC online quickly at a low cost, to serve you well in signing partners, intellectual property, investors, and revenue. Advisors and investors need to see your whole story in as few as ten slides. You need to recruit advisors, key partners, and cofounders well before approaching investors.

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View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

For most of my career, I’ve served startups and early-stage companies as an operating executive or advisor. Do you need highly skilled functional managers or do you need a true partner? someone to be that true partner). This is why I encourage almost every startup founder to find a partner or a cofounder.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 13, 2015

Thus I was happy to see a recent book, “ The Tech Entrepreneur’s Survival Guide ,” by Bernd Schoner, PhD, and cofounder of ThingMagic, which leans heavily on the people side of the equation. You need to have a technical genius on the team to get your startup product off the ground. The operations superstar. The trusted leader.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 24, 2016

The next default of waiting until later is equally bad, since partners who bow out early will still expect an equal share of that first billion you make later. Co-founders only able to work part-time, with responsibility and major income sources elsewhere, don’t carry the same risk as others with more operational responsibility.

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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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blog.nahurst.com

JULY 19, 2010

Nathan Hursts Blog Thoughts on Software, Technology, and Startups « Back to blog Im on the technical side of entrepreneurship in NYC. The graphic below balances the risks cofounders take with their relative contributions to help answer this question. I love programming, board games, and my wife. This doesnt have to be the case.

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 3, 2012

Andrew is the co-founder and CTO of Parse.ly , a technology startup that provides big data insights to the web’s best publishers. You’re trying to discover a product that will work for some market, while also being a hugely motivating space for you and your cofounders to work in for (potentially) ten years.

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www.virtuosimedia.com

MARCH 8, 2012

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. Before You Pitch To A Technical Cofounder.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 21, 2014

What about hiring, taxes, llcs, operations, scaling? “Phone accessories is an industry which operates at light speed. Get a technical co-founder. The toughest part is that my cofounder and I are non-technical co-founders. Getting overwhelmed by the big picture. I also recommend launching on Indiegogo.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

by Alejandro Cremades , cofounder of Panthera Advisors and author of “ The Art of Startup Fundraising: Pitching Investors, Negotiating the Deal, and Everything Else Entrepreneurs Need to Know “ Why should entrepreneurs intentionally be generous when negotiating with investors? She is speaking from experience.

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The Next Web

JANUARY 26, 2014

Ohad Frankfurt is the cofounder and CEO of Swayy , a personalized content curation and management platform. Sometimes, it was a technical issue that other founders helped us to solve. They allowed us to better understand our target market although it is not physically near to where the company is operating from.

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The Next Web

JANUARY 30, 2014

George Deeb is the Managing Partner at Chicago-based Red Rocket Ventures , a startup consulting and financial advisory firm based in Chicago. Marry technology skills with marketing or finance or operating skills for an effective blending of complementary skillsets. How to go about it?

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Mike Michalowicz

AUGUST 10, 2015

Joseph is an Achieved CEO/CTO investor and strategic advisor. His experience and expertise in small and medium companies focuses on strategy, growth and operational efficiency, resulting in more than $80MM in successful investor outcomes. Corporate Partners. Our Guests. Joseph Shemesh (left). Ethan Anderson (right).

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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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David Teten

OCTOBER 1, 2015

portfolio operator VCs, e.g., Andreessen Horowitz, ff Venture Capital, First Round Capital, Google Ventures. I’ve talked with a number of software development shops who are eager to get into the business of cofounding companies, i.e., getting product revenue and equity instead of just consulting revenue. mentor VCs, e.g., most VCs.

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David Teten

JANUARY 19, 2021

(co-written with Jamie Finney, Founding Partner at Greater Colorado Venture Fund. Our categorization is not a technical one. This structure allows for alignment on the front end, and real-time flexibility for performance metrics,” says Samira Salman , a family office investor and advisor. . Of the Inc. 5000 companies, only 6.5%

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www.paulgraham.com

APRIL 28, 2010

Be Careful with Cofounders This was the surprise mentioned by the most founders. There weretwo types of responses: that you have to be careful who you pickas a cofounder, and that you have to work hard to maintain yourrelationship. The lesson: dontpick cofounders who will flake. These were the biggest: 1.

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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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reidhoffman.org

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

× At Greylock , my partners and I are driven by one guiding mission: always help entrepreneurs. In a single year, the classic general partner in a venture firm is exposed to around 5,000 pitches; decides to look more closely at 600 to 800 of them; and ends up doing between 0 and 2 deals. What will that partner tell their partners?

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

NOVEMBER 21, 2011

How cofounders can collaborate without going crazy. We been managing the field by plan more than 75 enterprise customers and channel partners. Bob: We have a technical term for the person that was telling you this advice. And the technical term is, fool. What’s your question then? Melissa: Right.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

I don’t know how it operates behind closed doors. In a lot of the industries in which I ended up launching companies, there was a pre-existing profile of what a successful entrepreneur should look like—typically a young, white male with a technical, finance, or political background,” says Aguirre de Carcer. And if I tried to find out?

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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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NZ Entrepreneur

DECEMBER 18, 2022

Pierre Malou, Head of Operations and Acting CEO at Wellington UniVentures. Pierre is Head of Operations and Acting CEO at Wellington UniVentures , the Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington subsidiary tasked with launching new ventures from university research. We welcome engagement in all aspects of our process.

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www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Advisor. ); STARTUP. Office and Operations. 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. Newsletters. Subscriptions. Writing A Business Plan.

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thenetsetter.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Are you inventing new technical solutions to a problem? If you use a piggy-back services like those mentioned above, you are simply being shielded from the technical requirements of the web by another company. In other words you are outsourcing the technical aspects of your startup. But it sure does seem to help!

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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. From that life altering event, Ella Bing was born as a family owned and operated business in 2012. Thanks to Nancy D. Greene, Land Carroll & Blair PC ! Image Credit: Erica Bryers.

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Up and Running

MARCH 1, 2016

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. Your price may affect business operations. Just remember, when you’re pricing your product: Your starting price defines you.

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Seeing Both Sides

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

We selected this benchmark because it reflects the phase in which companies have proven product viability, achieved initial product/market fit, and are now expanding sales and growing more complex operations. Although the technical team often remains in Israel, many of the executives interviewed recommend departing for the U.S.

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Scalable Startup

MARCH 26, 2012

A real startup, that has employees and funding and a going operation.]. It will include travel, employee issues, hiring, firing, product design, cash burn, a new facility, the next funding round and some client and partner visits. The Google founders surrounded themselves with a dozen moentors and advisors.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

This is the first post in what’s going to be a series of blogs on how to go from nothing – no connections, no team, no money and no knowledge of how the startup industry really works – to operating a growing business. In Meebo’s case, for example, I was lucky enough to partner up with Elaine and Sandy. No phone system. No legal muck.

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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. I’ve listed them below in *very* roughly descending order of efficiency, measured by increased dollars one can put to work, divided by the operational dollars required to implement each strategy. .

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 12, 2019

We’re proud to share that our members, startups, entrepreneurs and Innovation Council partners submitted a total of 17 proposals to the SXSW PanelPicker this year! Cofounder and Director at Courier Therapeutics Kedar Karkare , PhD., Yet, many current Artificial Intelligence agents?—?despite

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