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Starting a tech company without a technical founder | From Atlanta with Love
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From Atlanta with Love. Starting a tech company without a technical founder. August 27, 2014. Few founders have the great fortune to have a lifelong friend that is technical…and interested in the same opportunity…at the same (and right) time. Well…to conventional wisdom, I say no thanks. As I mentioned in my last post, Sanket. Decided to jump in headfirst. Why do you need a technical cofounder? It’s important for one of the founders to take ownership of the technical roadmap / architecture and actively d...
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October | 2014 | From Atlanta with Love
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From Atlanta with Love. Monthly Archives: October 2014. Fighting is Critical to Startup Success. October 21, 2014. There are two types of cofounders:. Those that fight”. Those that fight, and are no longer cofounders. So what’s the difference between a fight. A fight is constructive and happens in a controlled environment. I believe fighting” is critical to the well being of any relationship, especially among cofounders. This post is about my. First fight with my cofounder Sanket. It gets issues out in t...
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July | 2015 | From Atlanta with Love
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From Atlanta with Love. Monthly Archives: July 2015. Get Organized or Die Trying. July 24, 2015. One of the hardest parts of running a startup is staying personally organized while keeping everyone else in the company organized. Change happens at the speed of the light, and being organized is how to stay ahead of the curve. This post is about how we adopted a system of organization at Fête. To try and stay ahead. But by March-end, we were using more tools than this guy. To simplify, we identified that a ...
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Fighting is Critical to Startup Success | From Atlanta with Love
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From Atlanta with Love. Fighting is Critical to Startup Success. October 21, 2014. There are two types of cofounders:. Those that fight”. Those that fight, and are no longer cofounders. So what’s the difference between a fight. A fight is constructive and happens in a controlled environment. I believe fighting” is critical to the well being of any relationship, especially among cofounders. This post is about my. First fight with my cofounder Sanket. In a controlled environment) is a good thing. It reinfo...
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Get Organized or Die Trying | From Atlanta with Love
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From Atlanta with Love. Get Organized or Die Trying. July 24, 2015. One of the hardest parts of running a startup is staying personally organized while keeping everyone else in the company organized. Change happens at the speed of the light, and being organized is how to stay ahead of the curve. This post is about how we adopted a system of organization at Fête. To try and stay ahead. But by March-end, we were using more tools than this guy. To simplify, we identified that a single task (i.e., fi...How i...
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A Tactical Guide to Customer Discovery | From Atlanta with Love
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From Atlanta with Love. A Tactical Guide to Customer Discovery. May 4, 2015. Customer discovery is crucial for every startup. It tells us if we’re solving a worthwhile problem. It helps us decide which features to build first and how to continue refining the product. And most importantly, it gives us an indication if we’re on the right path. Broad interviews are long, in-person sessions with potential users; the goal is to learn basic information about users and their initial thoughts of the idea. We use...
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May | 2015 | From Atlanta with Love
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From Atlanta with Love. Monthly Archives: May 2015. A Tactical Guide to Customer Discovery. May 4, 2015. Customer discovery is crucial for every startup. It tells us if we’re solving a worthwhile problem. It helps us decide which features to build first and how to continue refining the product. And most importantly, it gives us an indication if we’re on the right path. We used broad interviews to prioritize user pain points, test specific features we had in mind, understand which 20% of features would de...
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August | 2014 | From Atlanta with Love
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From Atlanta with Love. Monthly Archives: August 2014. Starting a tech company without a technical founder. August 27, 2014. Few founders have the great fortune to have a lifelong friend that is technical…and interested in the same opportunity…at the same (and right) time. Well…to conventional wisdom, I say no thanks. As I mentioned in my last post, Sanket. Decided to jump in headfirst. Why do you need a technical cofounder? It’s important for one of the founders to take ownership of the technical roadma...
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Atlanta: To Stay or Not to Stay… | From Atlanta with Love
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From Atlanta with Love. Atlanta: To Stay or Not to Stay…. August 5, 2014. In January, I made the toughest decision of my life (so far): to move from San Francisco to Atlanta to start a consumer technology company. I made this decision for three main reasons:. Already lived in Atlanta. Both of our parents lived in Atlanta so we could stay with them. We could keep our heads down and avoid distractions. So what changed our minds? Here are our positive findings. This city is loaded with talent. In Atlanta, t...
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