Don't do it alone! Lets connect co-founders. Post quick descript of your idea, location, and needs

Well yes maybe :) I'm still thinking. But I'm a little bit confused, what audience will you target? Seems like you're going to make a Belgian news site? I plan to make it international (with national versions as well though..). Anyway, I'm off, so I won't respond until tomorrow. Nice meeting you, both :)

Thanks for the suggestions Tichy. Yeah, a couple of people have said that I sound high in the demo video but it was more of an issue that I was recording it at 4am. I need to find someone to redo it with a professional sounding voice.

Tichy, are you interested in joining funky-fresh-bleeding-edge project that is trying to simplify the getting-fit process? Write me an email. :-)

Laurent, you shouldn't be scared talking about your project, many people have the same ideas and they like to go with their ideas, not yours.

What can make your site different is how relevant it is to users.

I think you should go with a national version first and only concentrate on that because fewer people have good knowledge of the belgian market and it is something you can handle better.

If your model is right, export it abroad afterwhile.

If you two guys get married, let me be your witness... ;)

I'll setup a forum where we can chat together, that would be fun to have a belgian community...

Email me at samuel.adam at the big G's mail.

You can also go and read nice articles in french at http://cultureinternet.com/

Looking for one and only one co-founder here!

I want to take information trading (e.g. CFD and betting exchanges, think tradesports/ cityindex/ betfair/ etc.) to the next level beyond its current primitive incarnations. Not sure yet whether the product should be targeted at professionals, consumers, institutions, or a combination of them.

Have done the startup thing before in the founder and CTO role (several rounds of funding then sold to a competitor). Therefore I have already made many of the usual first-time mistakes (e.g. taking co-founders' top education as a guarantee for startup skills, not firing people quickly enough, etc.) and can avoid them this time around =) My academic background is in economics (PhD thesis "almost" completed) and law, with strong CS and math skills.

What I can do: technology, legal, negotiation, strategy, foreign markets, know how to get funding

Quirks to be aware of: do not believe in decision by consensus, follow libertarian ideals, unable to work effectively with mediocre people (with the realization this would often be useful)

Your qualities:

- integrity, perseverance, gets stuff done, can sleep well while taking risks

- some of the following skills: finance, PR, hiring, business development, design, technology; industry experience in gambling/betting or financial trading would also be beneficial

I believe I can handle technology and organization management pretty well, therefore I am mostly looking for someone who likes handling external relations and is also a people person (i.e. can focus on keeping everyone happy inside the company). This is not written in stone however.

Technologies:

- backend: FP (ML variants, Erlang) with some C++, message-passing concurrency, PostgreSQL, cluster protocols, looking into stream processing; all on Unix like systems

- frontend:

(1) web: html+comet/ajax, flash

(2) client: C#+WinForms prototype, maybe ML+SDL/OpenGL later if that makes correctness easier to achieve

(3?) mobile: J2ME?

Location: UK or Gibraltar ideal for a number of reasons but open to locating the business somewhere else if for good reasons

Funding: self-funded for now, the plan is to do a single round in the GBP 500k-1m range with private investors at (hopefully) a ~5m valuation; revenue should sustain growth from there; ideally I would like to make a trade sale within a 3-5 yrs time span.

Contact me at ffmmuu(at)gmail.com to discuss!

A beta version of the news website will probably be available in about 2 weeks. I can notify you about it, if you want to, same for c1sc0, but you'll have to give me your email address then, I guess.

Funny, I thought starting the international version first would be better, as I find it easier to get the word out (lots of english web 2.0 blogs and such). I have very little knowledge on how to get your site promoted in Belgium.

Belgian community? You're giving me an idea :) Wouldn't it be awesome to gather belgian webmasters all in 1 place (a website.. obviously), create a commmunity and call it "Silicon Valley in Belgium". Not that I'm going to do that, it's just a cool idea :)