The founding team is composed of top computer scientists from MIT and Columbia University.
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To identify which (if any) of your founding team-members are CEO material, Barbash prescribed some serious soul-searching.
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Before launching MessageMe earlier this month, his co-founding team had collectively built more than two dozen applications for Facebook.
They are the co-founding team of an Arizona based company called WebPT.
Next she flashed a photo of Microsoft's founding team--Bill Gates, Paul Allen and another nine of the geekiest dorks you've ever seen.
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The dominant factor for me, and for the other members of my founding team, is the quality of the day to day experience.
She was on the founding team of Art.sy and there met her future investors, including Dorsey and Google chairman Eric Schmidt.
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Not every entrepreneur fits neatly into a single bucket, says Tjan, but a successful founding team will have leaders with strengths in all four characteristics.
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First, he explains, many current bosses of big tech companies have been there since the earliest days, when they were part of the founding team.
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Noor Siddiqui served on the founding team and the Board of Directors of The Hollow Trunk, a Virginia non-profit that grew to have international reach over four years.
To be eligible, your startup must be in beta stage, have received less than a million in funding, have a technical co-founder, and have at least one female on the founding team.
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Tim Chang is leading the deal for Mayfield in a reuniting of sorts: Chang previously invested in the company when he was at Norwest Venture Partners and also helped form the founding team.
Look at the members of your founding team: who rolls with the punches, who stands for what she believes in and who hides her head in the sand at the first sign of change?
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Nearly two-thirds of high-potential start-ups fail due to tensions within the founding and executive team.
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The founding partners of the Sequoia Capital China team broke up in China in early 2009, as one prominent example, with Neil Shen carrying the flag forward with a record number of IPOs from China deals.
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The Sullivan family, founding owners of the Patriots, owned the team and the stadium but not the surrounding land.
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