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Re: Ask HN: Who is seeking a cofounder?

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Post by ThomPete »

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…

Plenty of talented people out there who just dont have the network or know the right person. Lots to do with interests too.

Re: Ask HN: Who is seeking a cofounder?

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Post by 100-xyz »

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?

We found a few people do browse wifi networks. However, thats not our target audience. We are targeting people who WANT to get local info. Eg: guests at a restaurant WANT to look at the e-menu. Then the waiter directly them to 100-JohnsRestaurant wifi. Or as we have actually used - people in an event who WANT to get translation were directed to wifi 100-InnovationFair.

Hope it makes sense.

Re: Ask HN: Who is seeking a cofounder?

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Post by segmondy »

I'm looking for an amazing designer with very strong HTML & CSS skills, a bit of javascript skills is also fine. Reach out to me, I have tons of ideas and cash to throw at them. I can build scalable backends. You can email me at segmond AT gmail DOT com

Re: Ask HN: Who is seeking a cofounder?

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Post by rickyyean »

owens99 wrote: post #148
rickyyean wrote: post #41

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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

This is pretty smart. Well done. Has anyone followed this that you know of?

I just introduced it at a founder dating event I organized. Try it out and let me know how it goes!

Re: Ask HN: Who is seeking a cofounder?

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Post by o-__-o »

em-bee wrote: post #163
o-__-o wrote: post #161

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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 . i…

I had a cofounder who held this same position. I offered to do all the work and funnel it into the company and even that was a bad idea because then no one technical could work on the project... even though we were talkig about funding an offshore dev team. Sometimes idiots gone be idiots

Re: Ask HN: Who is seeking a cofounder?

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Post by em-bee »

yako1001 wrote: post #150
remyp wrote: post #70

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They are! Now people who don't fill out their profiles only get matched with other people who haven't filled theirs out. Of course in theory you could still get someone that pastes in lorem ipsum or something, but I haven't seen that happen yet.

How come you don't you add a field in the profile stating what they are there for like - need a cofounder, want to join a start up. Maybe an interest field too. Just some thoughts!

yeah, a larger text field where on can write an introduction and add more more details would be useful

Re: Ask HN: Who is seeking a cofounder?

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Post by em-bee »

remyp wrote: post #70
coupdejarnac wrote: post #61

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Hi there, I signed up with Kismet a long time ago and loved the idea. Unfortunately, most of the profiles kismet emailed to me were low quality. Most profiles were sparsely filled out. Are things better these days?

They are! Now people who don't fill out their profiles only get matched with other people who haven't filled theirs out. Of course in theory you could still get someone that pastes in lorem ipsum or something, but I haven't seen that happen yet.

how do you match? the first match i got doesn't make sense. i wrote:

need help with finding clients for web development projects

can help with software development, managing developers, qualifying tech job candidates, mentoring developers, training programmers

and then i get a match that says:

Can help with: Product Design

Needs help with: B2B Marketing

that's not a match at all.

Re: Ask HN: Who is seeking a cofounder?

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Post by Roybot »

Hey hey! I write software, previously at Microsoft. I like taking on various roles for building and shipping software. Developer, tester, lead, devops, or whatever needs to get done. I've led teams of about 4-8 developers through product development - including coming up with the product vision and translating that to user stories and developing the product. Although I'll mainly wear the developer hat I'm interested in learning and executing on other parts of a project - marketing, sales, whatever needs to get done. I'm open to coming up with something together.

Reach me on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/roy-moran-a8b42b9b/

Re: Ask HN: Who is seeking a cofounder?

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Post by dragostudor »

London | UK Looking for great people to collaborate with. Currently into nutrigenomics and healthcare. Developing a deep learning model which 99% faster, 99% cheaper and more accurate at identifying skin conditions as compared to a dermatologist. Fundamentally interested in solving big problems and building scalable businesses with people that I truly enjoy working with. Looking for researchers in bioinformatics, coders or people that can sell and also be friendly :)

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tudordragos/

My Background: ML/Data Science/Research + Business / Strategy

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