How to find the best technical partnes for your startup
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This document provides advice on finding technical partners for a startup. It notes that technical people are well-paid and lack motivation to join startups. It recommends defining the market, finding pre-orders if possible, and validating the idea with a prototype before seeking to build a full product. The document then discusses options for finding freelancers, technical co-founders, or external developer teams to help build the initial product version. It argues the advantages of external partners include shorter development time, lower costs, and allowing the founder to focus on business aspects.
How to find the best technical partnes for your startup
- 1. HOW TO FIND THE BEST TECHNICAL PARTNERS FOR YOUR STARTUP? By
- 2. What people think? + + = Idea Tech co-founder Investor No problems, Great startup!
- 3. How it really is? ● tech people are well-paid ● they usually don’t have motivation to join startups ● problems with managing a tech team ● no experience in building a product from A to Z ● no money to keep tech team longer than 2-3 months ● building a product takes more time and energy than expected ● non-tech people trying to learn a code lose motivation quickly
- 4. How to do it right? 1. Define market 2. Find declarations from buyers or preorders if possible 3. Validate your idea with prototype
- 5. EVERYTHING IS OKAY? GREAT! LET’S BUILD A PRODUCT!
- 6. Time to find your dream TECH TEAM! ThinkApps - The World’s Best App Designers & Developers at Your Service Accelerance - A Global Networ of World Class Sotware Development Teams A language-independent collaboratively edited question and answer site for programmers.
- 7. Or FREELANCERS Find freelancers to tackle any job, any size, any time An exclusive network of the top freelance software developers and designers in the world.
- 8. Or TECH CO-FOUNDER Largest Community of Entrepreneurs Online ● How To Recruit a Technical Co-Founder ● How To Find A Technical Co-Founder ● How I used LinkedIn to Find a Technical Co-Founder Connect with Entrepreneurs, Startup Founders and Advisors Find Meetups and meet people in your local community who share your interests.
- 9. What questions should you ask them? ● Did they build any startup before? ● How do they create software? ● Are they team players? ● Do they argue with you? ● Do I have money to keep them until a release of version 1.0 of my product? ● How do they communicate? ● Do they cooperate with someone like you?
- 10. Now it’s time to ASAP deliver 1.0 version of your product
- 11. Results 1. You’ ve got working product 2. It’s being sold 3. Success!
- 12. Now you can hire the best people availble for your product
- 13. So finally, what’s the advantages of using external Tech Partners? ● shorter time of finishing your app ● cost effective ● you get well-organized & experienced tech people ● they care about effective software development ● in the meantime you cen keep your focus on business side of your startup!
- 14. Example from Battalion Why did you decide to work with the external tech team and would you recommend it to young startup owners? I think that as long as you do your research into the team that you plan to work with then it is a great idea for young start up's. It allows for flexibility and also you have the back up of a few developers, rather than having your eggs in one freelancer basket. Unless you have a mega budget to employ your own in house team, then I think it is the best option. Despite having some excellent experience with freelance developers you can not rely on their continued involvement the way that you can with a reliable external team.
- 15. Want more? ● “Stop Looking For A Technical Co-funder” ● On MVPs, Gluing Things Together, and $270 Flights to South Africa. The Untold Story of an MVP. ● How Much For An App? Estimation The Agile Way
- 16. Questions? Let’s get in touch! We are curious about your point of view: