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Attention Orange County hackers..I need two co-founders
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#2So YC becoming hot bed of talent search? Good for everyone :D
Re: Attention Orange County hackers..I need two co-founders
#3Great hackers know that they can build anything; what they don't know is what they should be building. My problem is the opposite. I know what to build because I have customers who are clamoring for it, but I don't have the right people to build it.
Your skills: Database guru, VB6 tinkerer (not a typo!), browser-to-hardware connectivity hacker, RoR lover.
One co-founder can complement the other, so you don't have to have all the skills.
My background: 10 years in ecommerce at founder/ceo level. Have developed a working app by hiring coders, and even have paying customers, but ran out of money and went back to investment banking. But the entrepreneural bug bites, and bites real bad. Meanwhile, the app continues to run and generate revenue. A month ago, I came across PG's writings and this forum, and now I am convinced that I was doing it wrong - instead of paying unmotivated coders, I should have brought on two hackers as my partners and co-founders.
Ideally, you should be based in Orange County CA where I am, so we can fully develop the core system in the next few months. We will then apply to YC's fall program, so you must be willing to move to the Bay Area.
While I am confident that YC will accept us (PG's Viaweb experience will create tremendous leverage), there are two other routes we can take - apply for Charles River's $100k-$250K program, or completely bootstrap this and not seek any outside capital.
Your equity is fully negotiable. If you are a true hacker, I need you and you need me. This Steve Jobs is seeking two Wozniaks!
Send me your background info to: me.jobs.r.u.woz at gee male dott comm.
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#4'... Steve Jobs is seeking two Wozniaks ...'
I'd say you're out by a factor of two taking into account the 'reality distortion field' ~ http://tinyurl.com/2qznlq
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#5'... Steve Jobs is seeking two Wozniaks ...' I'd say you're out by a factor of two taking into account the 'reality distortion field' ~ http://tinyurl.com/2qznlq
A good one :-)
Re: Attention Orange County hackers..I need two co-founders
#6The problem with posts like this is that a lot of hackers here see themselves more like an all coding, all designing Steve Jobs rather than just Wozes who need a Steve.
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#7I suggest that you start teaching yourself to code while you wait for a wozniak. You need to know your program inside out and the best way is to learn code to assist your programmer to do minor tasks.
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#8I suggest that you start teaching yourself to code while you wait for a wozniak. You need to know your program inside out and the best way is to learn code to assist your programmer to do minor tasks.
Leonidas is 100% right. Learn by poking around, google things or read books, thats one way you will be able to guide programmers. Sometimes it so happens that whatever you want may not be done with the tech u r using, so its better you also get technically sound ... think on those lines and advice/guide people to approach things
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#9The problem with posts like this is that a lot of hackers here see themselves more like an all coding, all designing Steve Jobs rather than just Wozes who need a Steve.
...but not all of us. There must be a bunch of hackers here who'd rather not deal with people, but feel forced to because, well, who else is going to?
By the way, Steve Jobs is more of a design critic and salesman than designer. It takes different skills to do well at being a novelist vs. a book critic.
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#10I suggest that you start teaching yourself to code while you wait for a wozniak. You need to know your program inside out and the best way is to learn code to assist your programmer to do minor tasks.
Thanks for the suggestion; I am trying to avoid this path, as my best case outcome is that I will be an ok programmer - and that's not good enough to succeed. To win today, you have to have a real team.