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Wow, lots of vagueness here. I'll try to be concrete. I'm looking for someone who amazes me with their insights in the areas of my relative weakness. That in
by aneth 16y ago
Wow, lots of vagueness here. I'll try to be concrete.
I'm looking for someone who amazes me with their insights in the areas of my relative weakness. That includes design, user experience, sales, marketing, and media. You should also have a decent sense of humor, not be too arrogant, and generally be someone I'd like to be around and can trust.
I'm decent and understand most disciplines required for a startup, but it's too hard and not that fun to do everything on my own. That means you should really be able to show me demonstrable abilities, as I'm pretty demanding of someone who wants the title "cofounder." Ambition is great, but you better have worked on lots of stuff in your spare time if you have no track record.
I can show you that I'm an accomplished developer with many job offers each week that I turn down so that I can stick with consulting and pursue startup dreams. You should also be someone in demand, but turning down work. Honestly, I meet a lot of unemployable talkers and not enough doers.
My current ambition is to turn craise.com into a great business. There is a long story behind the existing product, but that's not the important part. The business model is there and I have the product direction. We need "customer development" - early customers to figure out our product and distribution model.
I've got lots of other projects behind me, including cribq.com - which I use all the time but hasn't been touched in 4 years. I built a good part of divvy.com for a client. I'm currently developing a social shopping system for a client.
I have a complex and long story to my life, as many of us entrepreneurs do, but I have experience with business, management, I speak Mandarin Chinese, and play ice hockey.
I'd love to do an incubation program like YC.
Get in touch at alex at stacktrace.com and we can meet.