Building an open source program for technology co-founders

In February I wrote a blog post about the lack of support for technology co-founders in BC, Canada.

I have decided to pull together an open source program/set of courses to educate/grow/upgrade technology cofounders, to increase their chances of success in their role.  The first step will be to collect ideas/experience/wisdom from the community and then pull it into a bunch of classes that a person can work through at their own pace.  It is my intention to build it so anyone could actually run it as face to face classes, in their local area.

The idea.

Create an open source resource/courses/program that people can run in their local area to educate/grow/upgrade technology cofounders, to increase their chances of success in their role as a technology cofounder and grow into a full CTO role.

The Why.

There are many, many programs that support the business/leader/ceo co-founder but few I know to support technology co-founders.

Motivation.

To help technology co-founders avoid mistakes, learn from others experience and build the quality product

Target audience Technology co-founder of a startup (Startup levels) with the intention of building a fast prototype to prove the concept.

Boundaries

To stay platform/technology agnostic

Journey

I will start with a level one startup and build through the others

Please share this link and come and contribute to the program at https://github.com/ericbrooke/ctofounder/wiki this is a wiki in which will collect all the ideas, suggestions for people we should interview, good resources you have already found and learned from..

We need the views of:

• developers,
• those thinking about creating their own startup,
• those who are in it creating their first production,
• those who have supported technologists on their journey,
• those who have done it several times.

We don’t care if you have succeeded or failed share it!  We need all your questions and experiences 🙂