Lightspeed Venture Partners

JANUARY 14, 2011

I would note that there was no inconsistency in the hiring bar applied to the rest of the management team at Serious Business; Charles Hudson and Mike Jimenez are now cofounders of Atomic Panda and Ryan Ferrier is Chief of Staff at Crowdflower. These are the greatest mistakes I believe we’ve made at Serious Business: 1.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 11, 2009

Posted on June 11, 2009 by steveblank When my students ask me about whether they should be a founder or cofounder of a startup I ask them to take a walk around the block and ask themselves: Are you comfortable with: Chaos – startups are disorganized Uncertainty – startups never go per plan Are you: Resilient – at times you will fail – badly.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 4, 2008

So if youre new, consider not paying any attention to the rest of this post, and just diving into the archives, if you havent already. Maybe youd like to start with The lean startup , How to listen to customers , or What does a startup CTO actually do? ) October 13, 2008 6:47 PM Luke G said. Eric, love the blog. Connect (off)line?

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The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 7, 2013

Vik Singh is CEO and cofounder of Infer , which recently raised a $10 million Series A round from Redpoint Ventures and provides data-powered applications to companies like Box, Jive, Nitro, Tableau, and Zendesk. . Build and depend on a dream team of enterprise-savvy advisors and doers.

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Steve Blank

MAY 11, 2009

They had this great architecture, and Apple had figured out to get movies into their own computers for a demo, but for the rest of us there was no physical device that allowed an average consumer to plug a video camera or VCR into and get video into a Mac. But the rest of the management team really skeptical. Little did we know.

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

OCTOBER 7, 2012

At this point, the very pregnant cofounder was weeping. Daymond offered to be an advisor. The cofounder was charismatic and persuasive and asking for $85k for 12% of the company. If you like this, follow us on twitter at @lightspeedvp.com and subscribe to our blog at [link] to get the rest of the seasons’ breakdown.

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The Next Web

JULY 13, 2012

The vision of Quick Left, it would seem, is to be somewhat of a technical cofounder as-a-service. ” This is one of the areas where Quick Left separates itself from the rest of the pack. That’s a bit harder to earn than putting on a better public face. ”We’ll help them interview,” Alongi said.

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Seeing Both Sides

NOVEMBER 1, 2011

Niraj Shah, CEO/cofounder of Wayfair ($500m revenue). Colin Angle, CEO/cofounder of iRobot (2005 IPO). Paul English, CTO/cofounder of Kayak ($200m revenue, S-1 filed). Matt Lauzon, CEO/cofounder of Gemvara (reportedly $10m revenue) . None of these CEOs are resting on their laurels.

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swombat.com

JULY 15, 2012

Im the CTO and cofounder of GrantTree , Woobius , and Vocalix, a full-time entrepreneur since 2007. But beyond that initial sip on the firehose, the rest is mental masturbation. swombat.com. daily articles for founders. BY DANIEL TENNER. founders library. Here are the current projects Im involved in. Learning and doing.

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siliconflorist.com

DECEMBER 22, 2012

Last year around the time PIE was starting, David Cohen , cofounder of TechStars , shared the TechStars Mentor Manifesto. Technical Support -- Key Accounts Manager. Technical Writer. Rest assured, tips, news submissions, and press releases are welcome and encouraged. Search for: July 3rd, 2012. by Rick Turoczy.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

“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. These Women Entrepreneurs Created A Fake Male Cofounder To Dodge Startup Sexism.

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www.paulgraham.com

AUGUST 1, 2008

Googles example should cure the rest of the world of this idea. And in particular, younger and more technical founders will be able to start startups than could before. It would be better if both were combined in one group, headed by someone with a technical background and some vision of what they wanted to accomplish.

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Up and Running

MARCH 1, 2016

Blackbox cofounder Bjoern Lasse Herrmann says, “Too many startups start building first without talking to customers. The name is likely enough, as the company licensee will have their own team to do the rest for you. A structured customer discovery process makes a big difference in defining the key features for an early prototype.

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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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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 3, 2014

neither you nor your cofounder can code and you’re building a mobile app? I offered that if Dave wanted to be the founding CEO then he was going to have to do two things: first, create a reality distortion field large enough to attract a technical co-founder. My contract developers building the app aren’t very responsive. The Problem.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

MARCH 11, 2014

Well yeah, you could potentially find a cofounder. With higher pricing and other things in that nature, maybe annual pricing and so on, you could probably get enough money together to start having an employee if a cofounder doesn’t sound good. Ten million, I think I can be very, very happy for the rest of my life.

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 15, 2014

In 2002, I met Libba and Gifford Pinchot, cofounders of Bainbridge Graduate Institute , at a retreat. Then you’re free to spend the rest of the day however you want. My friend Gene Kim, cofounder of Tripwire and author of When IT Fails , suggested I get a handheld gaming device. Enter the Craziness. Purpose: Free up time.

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The Next Web

JULY 20, 2013

Some large VCs in Silicon Valley or even superangels like Ron Conway only look at investment opportunities that were introduced by their network: colleagues from other funds, angel investors, industry experts, advisors etc. Co-investments are an industry standard, and entrepreneurs should strive to get as much know-how on board as possible.

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crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2012

Questions to Ask Potential Cofounders: The Master List | Founder Dating - [link]. Reducing noise … should be a signal to rest of market … YC W13 Will Be Smaller - [link]. 5 things a non-technical founder can do - [link]. What Makes People Happy? The Economics of Happiness | The Art of Manliness - [link].

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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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reidhoffman.org

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

Then, spend the rest of the pitch backing up those claims and increasing investors’ confidence in your investment thesis. Most investors arrive with questions, and if you proactively show you understand their principal concerns, you earn their attention for the rest of your pitch. Jean-Luc showed deep technology capabilities.

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NZ Entrepreneur

JANUARY 20, 2022

Many of which saw me and my ever patient wife and cofounder in tears, wracked with worry as we tried desperately to overcome challenges and setbacks we had no prior experience dealing with, all while raising a family and dealing with all the usual challenges of life. The rest is decided by a crazy game called life. Jake Millar, RIP.

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clicksend.wordpress.com

OCTOBER 26, 2010

The number two thing is lack of a technical co-founder. Partner with a Programmer After they have their big idea, most non-technical founders set forth to find an engineer to form a partnership. The fact is the technical co-founder will be doing more work at the start. The number one thing holding back new startups is funding.

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Scalable Startup

AUGUST 9, 2018

At this stage you’re essentially selling yourself and your cofounders. But to get that Silicon Valley angel funding you have to be part of that social network; most of the rest of the world doesn’t have that frothy environment. PreCog Security, a company I am currently helping to build as cofounder, is taking this approach.

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Rob Go

JUNE 10, 2013

Some other candidate sources are ok, but I always got bad results from technical recruiters. This means you can go either way on much of the rest of it and it doesn’t really matter. Pay a lot of attention to the relationship between cofounders, especially if both/all of you want to be CEO. Eliminate distractions. Keep going.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Only eBay was founded by a single individual – the rest were team efforts. 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. link] steve Interesting article.

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

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Steve Blank

JULY 27, 2015

Steve also teaches my Lean LaunchPad course at Berkeley and Stanford, and is the cofounder of Kinetrope, a product design shop working on bringing to market devices in the area of entertainment and IoT. Venk Shukla has worked in numerous early-stage companies as an executive, investor, board member, or advisor.

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David Teten

JUNE 19, 2020

Paul Graham, cofounder of Y Combinator, wrote an insightful essay, “ Two Kinds of Moderate ”: “There are two distinct ways to be politically moderate: on purpose and by accident. I’m an Advisor to Tuesday Company. They know a lot more than the rest of us about the office of the President. exception: Bob Dole, 1996.).

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