The Carlsen Center for Innovation & Entrepreneurship and Hacker Lab are excited to partner together to answer your call and bring to life a virtual discussion on “Finding a Co-Founder: Perspectives from the Technical Side.” This panel discussion is in response to the community's endless feedback on the challenge of finding and attracting technical talent into an early-stage startup.

Join Hacker Lab and hear from an amazing panel and expect to learn about how and why they, as technical co-founders, advisors, and early team members, joined a startup at an early stage.

Topics that will be covered are:
-Idea vs. Person
-Division of labour & logistics of bringing a team member on
-What does failure look like?
-Research and the idea

Panelists:
-Nile Mittow - CTO at Hacker Lab (Moderator)
-Dan Koellen - Veteran in Semiconductor Industry and Angel Investor in Sacramento Area
-Matt Pristone - Co-Founder of Riskalyze
-John Nogrady - Entrepreneur and Technologist
-Peichen Chang - Co-Founder of tCheck

Hacker Lab is an all-in-one makerspace, coworking facility and workforce incubator. We bring people, training, and advanced prototyping equipment together under one roof, giving you the opportunity to bring your vision to life.