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What are the good networking events in Seattle? I know plenty of engineers but would like to meet some business and designer folks.
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really? many lucrative niche opportunities? Then surely we'd have heard at least some examples of that on techcrunch. Hell if their other coverage is any indication, they would have made it seem like the norm by now. But hey if your version is correct, then you can find plenty of success stories where a niche business guy, got a programmer partner without having to pay thousands of dollars in the process. I just don'…
Michael Arrington, Anne Wojcicki, Guy Kawasaki, Seth Godin. All were business co-founders. You see business guy founder's companies regularly on techcrunch, how often do you bother to look into the background of founders on news stories ?
Arrington is the sole founder, and his "startup" was just a wordpress install.
Anne Wojcicki doesn't have a programmer co founder.
Guy Kawasaki paid thousands to build alltop, so doesn't apply.
Seth Godin is a marketer/blogger, so once again, no technical cofounder.
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The description PG gives of 'the ideal cofounder' tends to be someone who you've known for a long time, or have a fairly 'deep' history with - you're good friends or colleagues who get on really well or something like that. If you go by that definition, you simply cannot 'go out and find' someone because it would then take years to reach that level of comradeship.
But that doesn't mean everyone who didn't have a technically inclined college experience and doesn't have a hacking job should give up on the whole concept of cofounders.
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Michael Arrington, Anne Wojcicki, Guy Kawasaki, Seth Godin. All were business co-founders. You see business guy founder's companies regularly on techcrunch, how often do you bother to look into the background of founders on news stories ?
none of those examples involved people getting a programmer cofounder. Arrington is the sole founder, and his "startup" was just a wordpress install. Anne Wojcicki doesn't have a programmer co founder. Guy Kawasaki paid thousands to build alltop, so doesn't apply. Seth Godin is a marketer/blogger, so once again, no technical cofounder.
Kawasaki co-founded (and sold) Fog City Software with programmer cofounders.
Godin has founded a number of startups including with programmers I believe.
Reading this, I feel like it may be more relevant to business people starting startups than hackers starting startups. It's hard for a startup that's all business people to get very far. A startup that's all hackers has a decent chance. You need some versatility in your hackers -- and it may well make sense to have a business person onboard at the get-go, but I don't know if having one on average produces better resu…
Although I can't argue whether this article is aimed at the technically inclined or not, I do believe that the advice is equally applicable for both parties. Just because "business people" can't put together a brilliantly coded working product, does not mean that they can't do anything to get their venture started. Who is to say that setting up a legal entity, researching market trends, and securing sales channels is…
What are the good networking events in Seattle? I know plenty of engineers but would like to meet some business and designer folks.
If you put your email and what you're looking for in your profile, some of those people might come to you. HN is a good filter.
What are the good networking events in Seattle? I know plenty of engineers but would like to meet some business and designer folks.
OpenCoffee Seattle is good. I've only been once (two weeks ago) but it was valuable, good group of people and I met one of the best possible investor/advisors for the startup I'm working on. http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/190147/
What's your startup by the way?
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OpenCoffee Seattle is good. I've only been once (two weeks ago) but it was valuable, good group of people and I met one of the best possible investor/advisors for the startup I'm working on. http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/190147/
Thanks hedgehog, the mentor-y types is exactly what I was looking for. I'll check out the Thursday's Redmond meeting and then the next Seattle meeting as well. What's your startup by the way?
My startup isn't open for business yet but I'll definitely post here when we get to beta.