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Ok, so this is what happens to startups, step two survive. The first thing you need to do is get her to either sign a non-compete, sign away the company, or ma
by jdavid 18y ago
Ok, so this is what happens to startups, step two survive.
The first thing you need to do is get her to either sign a non-compete, sign away the company, or make you an offer to buy out her shares. Something legal might be necessary. If she is willing to sign a non-compete, and finish the project that is what you want, else, options 2 and 3 are on the table.
Next you need to finish your project. http://uservoice.com/ http://uservoice.com/ provides an outsourced software feedback engine for a website. If your feedback engine is more specific to your business process then you need still need to hire a developer.
At this point in the process, if you need to find a technical co-founder, i would skip it and go right for a freelance developer. You have developed most of the idea, and now you just need to round the corners, this is a perfect job for someone that just wants a pay check. I suggest 2 options to finding a developer.
Option 1, go your local colleges TODAY! and talk to career services. You might be able to find a programmer that can pick up fairly quickly what your previous developer did. You might be able to get away with $10-$20 an hour.
Option 2, i have heard of good things from http://programmermeetdesigner.com/ http://programmermeetdesigner.com/, or another place to pay someone for a project.
Ok, so the final thing you need to do is to raise more money. Either sell the app now on a trial basis or something. You might be able to get some cash in the door to help with legal fees, and to pay your new designer. You might find it easier to see if you can get another $50k right now from an Angel, Prosper.com, or from a potential customer that might loan you the money.
I hope that helps. If your product is medical related, I know some people who might be able to help you in Wisconsin.
- nostrademons 18y ago"You have developed most of the idea, and now you just need to round the corners, this is a perfect job for someone that just wants a pay check." I'm not sure this is the case. It sounds like the "it's nearly done" is based on the developer's word, and there isn't actually anything demoable right now. If that's true, and given that it's taken her 12 months to finish a Django website, I think it's a good bet that all her existing code is unusable and will have to be thrown out. If you understand Django, it should not take you a year to finish a website; more likely, the dev doesn't understand Django and doesn't really have anything working.
- jdavid 18y agoyou maybe right, every time someone left on one of our projects, we forfeited the code. ...and we are developers, it was always easier for us to take what we learned from the previous code, and then to design something simpler and more elegant. one of our guys has really turned me on to the track of design for use, and not for maintenance. Which tends to get stuff out of the door. You know another option is for drinko to start a new company, and license the tech from this company to the new one, to avoid all of the bullshit. Drinko, in all likelyhood, you are starting over at this point. I have seen 3 projects fail this way. Your BEST BET is to learn to code.