SWF (Sassy Woman Founder) Seeking Technical Soulmate

Major turn-offs: - "Noel: in the Philippines, runs recruiting operations and SEO" - "Design team in Moldova: they make the designs, you code them"

That's two parties in hard to reach timezones who are more senior and have some influence on the tech? I wouldn't touch that with a bargepole unless I get some written agreement that I would be given free reign to fix this if it becomes a problem (which it most likely will).

It's not like every great idea is immediately obviously great. I could have sworn one of the values in this community was tireless drive when nobody else believes in your company, doing whatever need be done to make it a success?

How is what she's doing (if that's what she's doing) particularly different? Especially considering I bet there's at least a couple founders on here who have occasionally turned on the charm to help reel in female investors.

From the sounds of it, Noel (among other things) is responsible for finding the actual virtual assistants. That's a critical position. The design team is probably more easy to replace.

The other thing that I note is that the founder wants everyone to read Atlas Shrugged. I'd take that seriously, don't apply unless you're comfortable with that brand of politics.

It probably will. I feel crude pointing this out, but it has become an annoyance to me in the past year. I consume a lot of technology and videogame journalism, so my comment is mostly derived from experiences there. (The person posting this blog/request is more related to what I'm about to say in spirit than in actual example).

In particular, I've come to enjoy playing a sad little game called "content creator or attention whore" where I predict what a journalist's website will be like before I actually visit it.

I am very good at this game. It helps to illustrate the difference between people who care about and are knowledgeable in videogames or technology versus those who just want to get their name and voice and face out there and are just using whatever they can get to springboard into having a sit-com on NBC or hosting Entertainment Tonight or something. These are the people who make me feel icky, because either they are misleading the audience and the reader by pretending to give a damn about something that is just part of their path to fame or they have so little faith in the reader that they can't win them over with words.

So, you have your Jeff Gerstmans, Veronica Belmonts, Scobles, Pogues, Sarah Lanes, Ngai Croals, Justin Mcelroys, Ryan Davis. These are people who clearly care about the things they cover and the focus of their sites are their content. Yeah, you might catch a series of goofy candid photos from Scoble now and then, but when you visit their sites, the primary focus is content.

Then you visit the site of some other people who supposedly do the same thing and their sites are just massive walls of devotion to themselves. They're filled not so much with -- you know, content -- as they are with headshots and glamor shots.

The most recent example of this game being played was when I listened to a gaming podcast where someone was a guest that mentioned they have about four shows that they do. Video podcasts, audio podcasts, producing content and so on. I just knew what I was going to find when I went to the website they mentioned. Sure enough, the site had a list of all the shows they do that was dwarfed by the 70% of every page that was consumed by multiple enormous headshots of themselves.

Oh no :( I think it's up - I just checked it