Looking for a co-founder? post here (3 rules apply)

Lately, just Guitar Hero and Rock Band. I'll pick up a decent electronic kit one of these days though.

If anyone in western Canada (Calgary, Alberta) would like to toss around some ideas send me an email (see profile).

i'm a programmer fresh out of college in bergen, norway (planning to relocate to boston or bay area). i'm 34, and i'm building a neural network to do speech to text. i need another programmer, preferrably someone with more experience than myself, especially with browsers and low-level signal processing.

From the responses on this page you appear to be correct.

What would you suggest?

The pairings that are made today would be best to apply for future cycles later in the year. Most people here you talk to will at best end up as an employee in your eyes, it's going to be hard to treat them as equals when most people are just throwing out soft skills they want filled.

My partner and I have known each other since high school but he went off to college while I went into the military. After reconnecting we've been working on small projects on and off for the past couple cycles to learn each others quirks, styles, and most importantly trust.

And after attending our 5 year high school reunion it's really surprising that people we haven't talked to in awhile turned out to be doing very similar tech things as well, even if they're not in the area. It surely doesn't hurt to look up Facebook some old friends and see what they're doing or what they're working on. Maybe some hate big corporate culture as much as we all do here.

A better way would be for people to list out their work experiences or market they're analyzing for their startup.

For example, one of the failed ideas I was researching for was event planning and building an evite competitor. After 4 months I dropped it but I've kept plenty of notes about trends, other websites, feature lists, specs, and so forth. If anyone wants to discuss it feel free to get in touch with me at alaska.miller@gmail.com. I also worked at a big corporation working with CMS tools, search tools, publication, enterprise software for PLM processes. If you want to build software to optimize those fields, again, get in touch with me.

Likewise my current idea is dealing with Flash video and Flex environment, and accessibility. If anyone has experience with that, please email me.

Start emailing people and sharing with them your ideas for feedback, then ask them for another referral to someone else you can talk to until you've literally have no one left to talk to. I've been keeping track of all my conversations and people of interest in iCal and 37s Highrise and building my business network. I'm also inviting local people to lunch to pick their brains.

But it's completely youthful naivety to think this is the right way to cofound a business together.