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Technical co-founder

Meaning in entrepreneurship & startups, with examples

nounCommon term

In entrepreneurship & startups, technical co-founder means: A co-founder who leads the building of the product, especially the software, and usually becomes the company's first CTO.

In Turkish: teknik kurucu ortak, teknik ortak

How it is used

Non-technical founders often say they are looking for a technical co-founder. Investors in tech startups usually prefer teams that can build the product themselves rather than relying fully on outsourced developers. A technical co-founder usually gets a significant equity share.

Example sentences

  1. I have the industry contacts, but I need a technical co-founder to build the platform.

  2. Our technical co-founder wrote the first version of the app in two months.

Common collocations

  • find a technical co-founder
  • non-technical founder
  • technical co-founder and CTO
  • co-founderOne of two or more people who start a company together and share the ownership, the work and the main decisions from the beginning.
  • founderA person who starts a company and builds it in its early days, usually owning a large part of it and taking the biggest risks.
  • MVPMinimum viable product: the simplest version of a product that real customers can use, built quickly to test whether the idea solves their problem.
  • equityOwnership in a company, divided into shares. In startups, equity is what founders, employees and investors hold, and its value grows if the company succeeds.

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