The Equity Kicker

AUGUST 20, 2014

With no team and no technical expertise Matt was planning to find a team and build out some product before starting to raise some seed money. Whereas as hires come on board and the product develops our involvement has scaled down to more of a mentoring role and for tactical projects. FINDING A COFOUNDER.

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David Teten

OCTOBER 1, 2015

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. The question is: how should they be compensated when cofounding a company? equity that belongs to departed cofounders)?

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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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YoungUpstarts

MAY 6, 2019

You don’t have a product and most of your meetings will not bring any fruit. You are looking for cofounders that can help you build a product. You have finally found a cofounder that can take care of the startup. Product development. Initial product development usually consists of prototyping and MVP.

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Up and Running

MAY 12, 2015

Drawing on advice from our own Tim Berry, founder of Palo Alto Software and Josh Cochrane, our VP of Product Development, I’ve broken down a few of the different options for entrepreneurs looking for feedback on their pitch. We always used advisors or mentors to vet numbers and the block and tackle items within a pitch.”.

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Up and Running

MARCH 1, 2016

According to a study conducted by seed accelerator Blackbox, many tech startups failed because they focused on their product rather than their potential customers. Blackbox cofounder Bjoern Lasse Herrmann says, “Too many startups start building first without talking to customers.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 4, 2008

Maybe youd like to start with The lean startup , How to listen to customers , or What does a startup CTO actually do? ) Because of IMVUs reputation, Ive also had the opportunity to serve as an advisor or board member for more than a dozen startups. It was by far the most intense and most rewarding experience of my professional life.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 9, 2009

At IMVU, I remember spending an incredible amount of time iterating on the model that would power our third-party developer economy. My cofounders and I would hash out nuances and details almost every day, re-drawing diagram after diagram on the whiteboard. MeganMurray : "Behind every technical problem is a human problem.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Post launch, if you gain traction, is where the business person will help take the load off of the technical folks. The business person can take all the meetings while the technical folks work on making the product better. Second, like I said, forget everything else and just get your product out the door.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 3, 2009

Ive been there: is it me or my cofounder thats crazy? Use some customer development to find out. Use some customer development to find out. The power of A/B testing is so under-exploited in product development, that Im trying new ways to explain its benefits. How can we tell the difference? What if its both of you?

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

This time things like, Patent, copyrights, other basic rules like technical issues and complications were something i was expecting from you. More often than not, a startup/company fails because the product developed is not what the marketplace sought. But at the end of the day, it is about a product being accepted.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 12, 2019

Cofounder and Director at Courier Therapeutics Kedar Karkare , PhD., WHY MORE SCIENTISTS SHOULD BE ENTREPRENEURS SXSW Conference | Track: Startups Speakers: Brittany Barreto , PhD., Venture Associate at Capital Factory Emily Reiser , PhD., Innovation Strategist at TMCx Sarah Hein, PhD.,

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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?" " Web Development Startups Solo Founders I am a creative guy with a startup idea. Developer, engineer, CTO, or technical co-founder?

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steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

AgileZen – project management visually see and interact with your work Kanbanery – Simple online team or personal kanban board LeanKit Kanban – Great for visualizing work of product development Kanban Pad – “Nice and lean” and free online Kanban tool Banana Scrum – A tool simple as Scrum itself.

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