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Coming from an engineering perspective, finding a suitable "business-side" person is extremely harder, than the other way around, for the simple reason of track

by sdrinf 16y ago

Coming from an engineering perspective, finding a suitable "business-side" person is extremely harder, than the other way around, for the simple reason of track record. How do you measure someone's ability to actualize a business? By observing the previous businesses he made, annual turnover, profit, and exit. Someone already having any of these is extremely unlikely to be looking for a "technical co-founder" -he will be looking for employees. Thus, everyone touting themselves as a "business guy looking for co-founder" has an extreme likelihood of unvalidated track record, and by very definition, an unqualified candidate for co-founding. I'm very open taking suggestions on how to tackle this problem, other than taking random lottery tickets -my current solution is working alone, but it's massively sub-optimal.

pseudopattern 16y ago
Thinking about a potential partner this way is an enormous category error. Lot's of people that have made it and wasted huge amounts of time and money trying to do it again, neglecting luck and other things that gave them their fortune (not to discount the skill that went into making it). There are far more charismatic people then there are people worth 10s of $M. Finding a person that is passionate about what you are doing is far more valuable than trying to get a mister money bags to carry you for your first foray into serious business.
- sdrinf 16y ago
  By no means am I looking for "money bags to carry me"; neither would this be my "first foray into serious business". However, you are asking me here to give up the primal discipline of meritocracy -evaluating plans, ideas, thoughts based upon demonstrated / actualized intelligence, and merit - in exchange for charisma -the ability of persuasion. For that, I call BULLSHIT: based on my previous data points, the highest probability of root reason you're asking me this, is to make way for a hidden agenda of yours (or people like yourself). And for that, you deserve a public bozo bit.
  - pseudopattern 16y ago
    Ask your dr about xanax at the soonest possible hour. I have no interest in collaboration with a mad man.

by sdrinf 16y ago

pseudopattern 16y ago

Thinking about a potential partner this way is an enormous category error. Lot's of people that have made it and wasted huge amounts of time and money trying to do it again, neglecting luck and other things that gave them their fortune (not to discount the skill that went into making it). There are far more charismatic people then there are people worth 10s of $M. Finding a person that is passionate about what you are doing is far more valuable than trying to get a mister money bags to carry you for your first foray into serious business.

sdrinf 16y ago
By no means am I looking for "money bags to carry me"; neither would this be my "first foray into serious business". However, you are asking me here to give up the primal discipline of meritocracy -evaluating plans, ideas, thoughts based upon demonstrated / actualized intelligence, and merit - in exchange for charisma -the ability of persuasion. For that, I call BULLSHIT: based on my previous data points, the highest probability of root reason you're asking me this, is to make way for a hidden agenda of yours (or people like yourself). And for that, you deserve a public bozo bit.
- pseudopattern 16y ago
  Ask your dr about xanax at the soonest possible hour. I have no interest in collaboration with a mad man.