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Any information on how the three founders met?
by danest 16y ago
Any information on how the three founders met?
- akharris 16y agoSure: Josh and I have known each other for years through mutual friends. We started working on the idea that would become Tutorspree at the beginning of the summer, and as we realized we were onto something, started figuring out how to round out our team. That led to a full on search for a technical co-founder back in NYC. It took a fair amount of doing (and if you want to know more about finding a great technical co-founder in NYC, happy to discuss some more). After a lot of work, we found Ryan, and it's been great ever since.
- sachinag 16y agoYes, the search for a technical co-founder is easily something that would interest, oh, about a million other people.
- akharris 16y agoI wrote a post about it here: http://www.aaronkharris.com/post/1000816766/wehaveactoandsocanyou http://www.aaronkharris.com/post/1000816766/wehaveactoandsoc... I kept meaning to post that to HN, but never actually got around to it. Always happy to answer more questions.
- sachinag 16y agoHey, you must know Aashish! I was super impressed with him back when I was starting Dawdle back in 2007. Small world.
- danest 16y agoAaron how much of technical background did you and Josh have when you first started building the website and also when did you guys realize that you had something? Also do you guys plan on staying in NYC or moving out to California?
- akharris 16y agoNot much. My last real coding experience was C++ back in AP CS. I started teaching myself python at the same time we were doing full time customer development. I had a couple of friends pitch in some time to help us do some early stage stuff. We hit a tipping point in early August where we realized we were onto something - no one thing did it, more an aggregation on a lot of signals and a lot of legwork and conversations. We decided the time was ripe to do it for real, and put all of efforts into "finding Ryan." He handles all the real coding. I pitch in on some of the front end work (taught myself HTML and CSS) - but he's the guy who makes it all come together. Although, I do seem to get stuck with setting up printers and routers. As for NYC/California: we're out in CA now for YC. We'll do whatever is best for the company when the program ends.
- milkshakes 16y agoi'd like to know more about finding a tech co-founder in nyc, how can i reach you?
- akharris 16y agofeel free to drop me a line: aaron at tutorspree dot com
- ryanb 16y agoI met aaron and josh through HN, actually