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Re: You can now use YC's Startup School directory to find a cofounder

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Post by zafka »

avinium wrote: post #44
zafka wrote: post #15

Are there many young hungry lawyers who go to startup school? I have always felt if I could hook up with a good lawyer who liked dealing with the bureaucratic stuff the sky would be the limit.

What field are you with so much red tape that you need a lawyer cofounder?

The Field I am currently working in is "medical devices", but I have a very wide range of interests from agricultural to grinding and cutting tools, Ceramics, etc. Obviously you really don't need a lawyer on full time, but someone with that bent could be taking care of all the paper stuff which I can comprehend, but all too often put off.

Re: You can now use YC's Startup School directory to find a cofounder

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Post by yeldarb »

machinelearning wrote: post #57
yeldarb wrote: post #52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The magic comes when combining AR with an app that understands what it’s looking at and how to contextually interact with it. The AR toolkits tell you about the 3D environment but they don’t do anything to tell you about the context. When your app understands what it’s looking at it can add relevant functionality (eg solve a paper Sudoku puzzle, give hints, check your work, scan into a playable app, etc). Happy to ta…

Generalized scene understanding is still a hard problem in both academia and industry. The big companies are working on such things with access to tons of data. Assuming you do know what’s in the scene semantically most ar applications that aren’t games do intend to use that information. I’d say the primary hurdle there is still general scene understanding. It’s easy to identify a sudoku puzzle but not so easy to ide…

Definitely. Not everything I’d like to do is possible at the moment but Machine Learning is getting better so fast that more and more will become feasible bit by bit.

I have a bunch of ideas that seem like low hanging fruit, a bunch that seem hard but possible, and a lot that will be possible someday. And hopefully I can help accelerate that timeline.

Re: You can now use YC's Startup School directory to find a cofounder

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Post by yeldarb »

Vomzor wrote: post #58
yeldarb wrote: post #52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The magic comes when combining AR with an app that understands what it’s looking at and how to contextually interact with it. The AR toolkits tell you about the 3D environment but they don’t do anything to tell you about the context. When your app understands what it’s looking at it can add relevant functionality (eg solve a paper Sudoku puzzle, give hints, check your work, scan into a playable app, etc). Happy to ta…

You’re idea is to build that context layer? It seems the apps you’re talking about will become reality when we have useful AR glasses. But they will be manually built for each usecase.

Essentially. I have a list of use cases I think are possible to tackle now so I’m going to work on building out more single-niche apps in the near term.

In doing so I’ll have to build out tools and common code which I hope to eventually release as a platform to help other devs expand the idea out into other verticals.

Re: You can now use YC's Startup School directory to find a cofounder

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Post by zafka »

scotth wrote: post #23
zafka wrote: post #15

Are there many young hungry lawyers who go to startup school? I have always felt if I could hook up with a good lawyer who liked dealing with the bureaucratic stuff the sky would be the limit.

How about old hungry lawyers?

Hee, that might be even better. Although that raised the question of why they are still hungry. Perhaps I stated the original question incorrectly. Hmmm.

Re: You can now use YC's Startup School directory to find a cofounder

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Post by zafka »

noloblo wrote: post #20
zafka wrote: post #15

Are there many young hungry lawyers who go to startup school? I have always felt if I could hook up with a good lawyer who liked dealing with the bureaucratic stuff the sky would be the limit.

Where are you located

South Florida, east coast.

Re: You can now use YC's Startup School directory to find a cofounder

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Post by mceoin »

andrewstuart wrote: post #60

PG both highly recommends having a cofounder and also identifies cofounder conflict as a leading reason for company failure. So what's the "right" thing to do? Have a cofounder to greatly increase your chances or success, or endanger your company by getting a cofounder?

Single founder success stories are the minority. Despite the leading cause of startups failing being founder breakup, the greater chance of winning still lies with having one (or two) cofounders.

Re: You can now use YC's Startup School directory to find a cofounder

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Post by m0zg »

kevin wrote: post #53
m0zg wrote: post #51

This is a _profoundly_ bad idea. Cofounders should have a strong personal relationship before they start a company. They need to actually _know_ and _trust_ each other. I'd rather start a company without a co-founder than bring in someone I don't know as an even remotely equal partner.

Most people are in Startup School haven't even started or have no idea. SUS is a perfect place to start on a small project with other people. From our experience at YC, getting a cofounder is the single best thing to improve the odds of your startup.

That could be at the same time true on average and not true for the specific case where the founders don't know each other all that well (and therefore don't trust each other much more than you'd trust a stranger). If you have stats on the latter case, I'd be curious to see them. If not, consider collecting the stats from this experiment.

Maybe people are "good by default" and all that, but I do have some very early stage startup experience (VPEng), and both the founders and the employees have enough trouble trying to not get screwed even without such additional complications. Money and egos always find a way to ruin everything.

Re: You can now use YC's Startup School directory to find a cofounder

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Post by davidw »

matz1 wrote: post #28
davidw wrote: post #17

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You guys have any data? I mean, it seems like a bad idea to me too, but you guys have access to a lot more data than I do.

How is it a bad idea? To find friend you have to start from somewhere right ? One way maybe from this "dating" site

I don't have first hand experience, but my impression is that the best co-founders are those who you've got some history with, who you know and trust. That doesn't happen overnight.

Kind of like an actual dating site might be a good way to meet potential marriage partners, but you'd look at someone pretty weird if you went on a date and they suggested they want to get married right away.

But who knows; those guys see a lot of founders, maybe things work out differently.

Re: You can now use YC's Startup School directory to find a cofounder

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Post by taytus »

crimsonalucard wrote: post #11

I'm a senior developer. I'm up to quit my job and start something for anyone who's looking for a technical cofounder. Specifically though I prefer people who compliment what I lack in areas of salesmanship and social engineering.

If you want to help us make the web faster, please email me.
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