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Finding a Technical Cofounder for Your Startup

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I've recently received several emails from people looking for a technical cofounder for their startup. "I'm looking for a partner / cofounder who can not only head the technical aspects and build a working model of the site, but someone with the connections to put a great development team together when we need it.

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Building Your MVP as a Non-Technical Founder

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I did a presentation this week at Coloft that looked at how Non-Technical Founders can go about getting their MVP built. Even with these, you will have paper-tested your MVP, but the reality is that customers will not be able to assess the value to them until they actually use it. It had a passionate group of 50 people attending.

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Working with Developers

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It may give non-technical founders a bit more insight into working styles when it comes to developers. If you’ve ever seen an athlete use a big word in a slightly wrong way, that’s how you sound when you use technical language and you don’t quite know what it means. I.e., they need a developer more than they need a CTO.

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Hiring Developers Before Product/Market Fit?

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In the mean time, if you need some extra help, get some contractors to test out specific things. When I talk with early-stage companies, often the discussion starts with them asking me about Hiring a CTO for Your Startup , or Finding a Technical Cofounder for Your Startup or How to Find Programmers for Your Startup.

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Making Sure You Are Ready to Begin Building Your MVP

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Do you have a Technical Advisors: Every Web/Mobile Startup Must Have One ? Learn how to test and possibly use testing and load tools. Learn how to test and possibly use testing and load tools. Don't be fooled by a Common Misunderstanding in Agile Software Development. Correct your course quickly.

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WaveOne aims to make video AI-native and turn streaming upside down

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seed round, they are ready to move towards testing and deploying their actual product. I should say that I initially spoke with WaveOne’s cofounders, CEO Lubomir Bourdev and CTO Oren Rippel, from a position of significant skepticism despite their impressive backgrounds.

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Stanford Podcasts - eHarmony - Greg Waldorf

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skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Tuesday, February 27, 2007 Stanford Podcasts - eHarmony - Greg Waldorf I was just pointed to a set of great podcasts done by Stanford B-School and particularly, I just listed to the podcast by eHarmonys Greg Waldorf. He has twenty years’ experience as a CTO.