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Finding a Technical Cofounder for Your Startup

SoCal CTO

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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Mavenoid, which automates technical support and onboarding for hardware companies, raises $30M

TechCrunch

Founded out of Stockholm in 2017, Mavenoid works with hardware and consumer electronics companies including HP, Husqvarna, and Jabra, serving to automate technical support and onboarding for customers spanning everything from printers and ovens, to electric scooters and industrial equipment. ” Technical support. Mavenoid chatbot.

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Building Your MVP as a Non-Technical Founder

SoCal CTO

I did a presentation this week at Coloft that looked at how Non-Technical Founders can go about getting their MVP built. Leverage Existing Platforms or Third Party Products - you want to test your social network, grab Drupal and whip something together, or even just use a hosted service. WordPress is pretty easy to hack.

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A new venture studio, SuperLayer, aims to become a preeminent Web3 launch pad

TechCrunch

In fact, before spinning up SuperLayer, Chou cofounded the blockchain gaming startup called Forte ; he is also the cofounder of Rally , a launchpad for creators to build and distribute their own digital currencies that are essentially white-labeled versions of the RLY coin, as it’s called.

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Fleet nabs $20M to enable enterprises to manage their devices

TechCrunch

Fleet arose from an open source project called Osquery that was created by CTO Zach Wasserman together with Moonfire Ventures partner Mike Arpaia. Wasserman was a software engineer on the security team at Meta (formerly Facebook) and cofounded two companies, Kolide and Dactiv, before settling in at Fleet.

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Working with Developers

SoCal CTO

It may give non-technical founders a bit more insight into working styles when it comes to developers. Only go social when they go social. 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. Stay on point.

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Intenseye raises $4M to boost workplace safety through computer vision

TechCrunch

This means that Intenseye can identify health and safety violations, from not wearing a hard hat to ignoring social distancing protocols and everything in between, in real time. Intenseye integrates with existing network-connected cameras within facilities and then uses computer vision to monitor employee health and safety on the job.