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Re: Ask HN: Who is seeking a cofounder?

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Post by o-__-o »

em-bee wrote: post #125
mi100hael wrote: post #26

These threads always interest me. Who is really willing to bring on an absolute stranger to their early-stage startup and heap a bunch of responsibility (and equity) on them? It seems a random individual from the internet would be very likely worse than no partner at all, considering you're pretty well locked together and you have no idea how that person handles conflict or pressure or really anything. And why would…

the general advice or best experience seem to be to team up with people that you have worked together with for a few years. but as someone who effectively has been working alone as a freelancer for most of my adult life i simply don't have any coworkers or work friends. and don't get me started on networking. i wasted lots of time at so called networking events, to the point that when i moved to a smaller city the la…

But you can afford to work for equity if it’s your own project? Mayhaps your problem is that you only see your project as valuable and are subconsciously dismissing other potential projects that could kickstart your own

Re: Ask HN: Who is seeking a cofounder?

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Post by em-bee »

o-__-o wrote: post #161
em-bee wrote: post #125

Earlier quoted context omitted.

the general advice or best experience seem to be to team up with people that you have worked together with for a few years. but as someone who effectively has been working alone as a freelancer for most of my adult life i simply don't have any coworkers or work friends. and don't get me started on networking. i wasted lots of time at so called networking events, to the point that when i moved to a smaller city the la…

But you can afford to work for equity if it’s your own project? Mayhaps your problem is that you only see your project as valuable and are subconsciously dismissing other potential projects that could kickstart your own

no, i still have to earn money first.

most startups fail. the likelyhood that the earned equity will be enough to kickstart my own project years later is to small to be worth the risk.

if i join someone for equity, then it has to be a project that i am actually interested in enough that i'd start it on my own if i had the opportunity.

so it's not my project vs your project but it is my interests vs your interests. if our interests align, i'll join you, even for equity only.

however at the end of the day i still have to put food on the table, so if you are looking for 100% commitment, i simply can't afford that.

i was part of a startup based on that premise. it failed because noone could put in enough time, and the founder rejected the idea to finance ourselves with consulting work believing that if we did that we'd never get to work on the startup because we'd be busy building up a consulting firm.

i don't believe that's true, because somehow i manage to make a living from consulting and still have time to work on my project.

it's all about priorities.

Re: Ask HN: Who is seeking a cofounder?

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Post by shmooth »

rickyyean wrote: post #41
mi100hael wrote: post #26

These threads always interest me. Who is really willing to bring on an absolute stranger to their early-stage startup and heap a bunch of responsibility (and equity) on them? It seems a random individual from the internet would be very likely worse than no partner at all, considering you're pretty well locked together and you have no idea how that person handles conflict or pressure or really anything. And why would…

I think you can definitely gel with a stranger, but you have to know how to date. Tinder works because we know how to date. There's no protocol to founder dating...so I made one up: https://github.com/rickyyean/founder-dating-ritual

i dig.

wonder if it could be used - something like it - for platonic friendship dating.

Re: Ask HN: Who is seeking a cofounder?

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Post by zxxc »

world32 wrote: post #152
zxxc wrote: post #141

I'm Full stack developer. EU. Would like to participate in something connecting with health. Or i have an issue: In EU (How about US?). We have an issue with appointments to doctors. All kinds of doctors. It's often hard to find a time in next weeks. So we can build a website where doctors can help by webcamera with something simple like cold Or we can build some AI based system that will monitor user's smart watch,…

"camera in bathroom"

Yeah, sounds secure :) I've meant that regularly, every morning some device in bathroom can check your health status. For instance, infrared camera, or smth.

Re: Ask HN: Who is seeking a cofounder?

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Post by Lionga »

davidddavidson wrote: post #160
100-xyz wrote: post #25

My startup is here - 100-wifi.com You see a wifi say 100-flyingYoga and would like to know more about this Flying yoga. So you join the wifi and are taken to the Flying Yoga company web pages where you get the info. Then you see 100-MikesBurgers. You join it and read up on makes these Burgers the talk of the town. The product is developed and tested. We need help with product fit and marketing. Looking for people wit…

Are people really browsing wifi networks like that and with any frequency?

No

Re: Ask HN: Who is seeking a cofounder?

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Post by LendIt123 »

em-bee wrote: post #134
LendIt123 wrote: post #39

Looking for a solid mentor/guide that is chill to work with and has cool projects they need help working/brainstorming on. I also have a couple ideas that might be interesting to MVP, for example: https://www.reddit.com/r/Startup_Ideas/comments/bbjfqu/short...

can you elaborate on what your goal is?

Expand my skills, work on interesting projects with interesting people, and eventually make some sort of secondary income.

Re: Ask HN: Who is seeking a cofounder?

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Post by nocubicles »

ddebernardy wrote: post #131
nocubicles wrote: post #128

B2B|ERP related product -looking for cofounder with marketing and sales skills. I have productivity and integration platform for one specific SaaS ERP(SAP). I have customers that are using it daily and looking to scale out and find more customers. Ideally the person would have knowledge in ERP and located in EU.

You didn't leave any contact details. I'd be curious to have a chat (email in my profile).

There is now.

Re: Ask HN: Who is seeking a cofounder?

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Post by OJFord »

ganeshkrishnan wrote: post #158
OJFord wrote: post #89

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> "butt buddies" (in hindi we call them Chaddi-dost) My Hindi is far too limited to be sure, but I don't think that translation has the same connotation at all. Just fyi!

It's incorrect translation. The correct one is "trouser friends" because they are so close they can borrow each other's shorts/trousers

Haven't heard that one. 'Blood brothers' might be close. (In case you're not familiar, it's an ironic phrase, doesn't mean that the 'brothers' are related at all, just very close: https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Blood%20Brot...)

Or, I suppose, 'BFF', but perhaps not even teenage girls can bring themselves to use that seriously today (I suspect it's 'so last year').

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