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How did you find your business partners?
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#2I met mine through a mutal friend. He had the product idea and could do everything needed except for the technical side of things. My name was eventually brought up and I got a phone call later that night to go over the idea. A week later I had a prototype version ready to demonstrate and we moved on from there. That was 5 years ago and we're still business partners to this day.
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#3We worked together (directly) in a corporate IT department.
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#4We had a major power outage in the Seattle area in December '06 and some areas didn't come back for 12 days (mine was 6). I met my partner at a grocery store while picking up firewood and somehow we talked about how our lives were dependent on computers and the internet :-P. That evening we started poker nights with a few friends where we bounced ideas. Finally, when I was working on my idea and the 2 people working with me QUIT, I was telling him about how hard it was to find a co-founder! And to my surprise, he offered to work on it....now we exhibit great teamwork! Just like the founders of Google, our Bachelors is from Univ. of Maryland and Univ. of Michigan ... LOL
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#5When I started a summer project, I used facebook advertising and campus flyers to find potential partners.
I ended getting ~15 hackers interested in working on the project over the summer, interviewed 10, and picked two.
We all worked an lived together in the same apartment. It was probably the best summer of my life, and cost us about $2,000 / person. Most of that was for food & rent.
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#6Friends of friends... put it out there to anyone/everyone you know that you're looking for someone with x background or x skills. Let your network do the work. It worked for me!
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#7Back in high school I used to get small freelance projects. Every now and then I would subcontract it. And I subcontracted one of the coding projects through a rentacoder.com to what later turned into my partner. We just connected really well and shared a passion to launch new things.
We've done quite a few ventures together in past 4-5 years with MSN chat being our only line of communication:) If we get into YC he'll be flying up to US and hey we might actually finally meet.
Re: How did you find your business partners?
#8When I started a summer project, I used facebook advertising and campus flyers to find potential partners. I ended getting ~15 hackers interested in working on the project over the summer, interviewed 10, and picked two. We all worked an lived together in the same apartment. It was probably the best summer of my life, and cost us about $2,000 / person. Most of that was for food & rent.
That's a neat approach in that it's something that can be repeated - of course the exact response may vary depending on the nature of your uni.
Re: How did you find your business partners?
#9I met mine through a mutal friend. He had the product idea and could do everything needed except for the technical side of things. My name was eventually brought up and I got a phone call later that night to go over the idea. A week later I had a prototype version ready to demonstrate and we moved on from there. That was 5 years ago and we're still business partners to this day.
I'm interested in the relationship between the idea creator and the coder.
I have the idea, but I can't program for the life of me. I've outsourced to people in China but I need to have someone local who can take care of the small stuff.
It just seems that if I find somebody I'll just be telling them what to do while I sit and watch them code...
How do you deal with this?
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#10My current business partner went to the same highschool as I. He and I became friends because of our love of ideas. We both looked to the future not just as an amusing fiction, but as something we would create. So we were always working on science projects, rail guns, etc.
My initial interest in applying to Ycomb came when a friend of my brother's put an alert out to anyone who wanted to start a business on top of an idea he had around OpenID. I expressed interest and after he discarded his idea, he opted to join my project. However, the connection between he and I was far looser, and eventually he left the group. Interestingly, a day before our third left I told my brother that I had a feeling our third was going to leave. Not particularly useful prescience, but I think it goes to show that if you have a bad feeling about a relationship, you should listen to it.