Daniel Jarjoura presented a 120 minute presentation on how to find and work with a technical co-founder. The presentation discussed how developers see themselves and business people, where developers typically work, how to find developers through hackathons and their motivations being technical challenges over money alone, and the importance of sharing business challenges with developers and learning to code yourself if the partnership does not work out.

1. How to find
and work
with your
technical
co-founder
Teach it yourself - November 2013
Daniel Jarjoura

3. 44 slides
120 minutes
Unlimited Q&A

4. About me
Entrepreneurship
Innovation Manager
Business Development Director
Ninja Family
Product Manager
Pre-sales
Engineer
MS
Computer Science
BS
Telecommunications

5. How developers see business people

7. How developers see themselves

9. How business people see developers

11. How business people see themselves

13. About Developers

14. Who they are

16. Where they mainly work

17. Outsourcing
companies (SSII)
Big technology
companies
Banks and
insurances

18. 80% of developers join a big company

19. Who needs them

21. We lack 50,000 to 80,000 developers
every year in France

22. Where to find them

25. Hackathons

26. 100% of developers are attracted by
the technical challenge

28. Where they like to work

30. What they need to work

32. Money is also
important

33. But not the main
driver

34. Exciting
Technical
Challenges

36. Don’t forget

37. Business challenges need to be shared
with your developers

38. And if it doesn’t work

39. Learn to code

40. Like these guys

44. Let’s
keep
in
touch!
@Startup42_
www.startup42.org
facebook.com/Startup42
daniel@startup42.org
linkedin.com/company/startup42
@Djarjoura
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