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If your plan is to pay 'not very much' then you're probably not going to get anyone (almost certainly nobody decent) unless they're an almost equal partner in w
by OJFord 3y ago
If your plan is to pay 'not very much' then you're probably not going to get anyone (almost certainly nobody decent) unless they're an almost equal partner in whatever you're doing. Otherwise why would they assume such risk? Not for money. Not for potential future upside, or for passion (both of which they would do their own thing for).
IMO (which should be taken with a lot of salt) you either need a cofounder, big bag of VC money to offer, or to farm off your MVP work to cut-rate contractors rather than hire an actual employee.
- aemetri 3y agoOkay thank you! My challenge is I'm a non-tech founder, over a year into this business and have invested loads of my own time and resources at this point (bootstrap). What would you do in my position? I know that might be a difficult question to answer but just as a starting point...
- OJFord 3y agoIf it's to be a technical thing, then however much you've done you're missing a large and crucial piece of the puzzle surely? I would either try find a way to pay competitively (which may mean more than small/mid established firms, to compensate for the much higher risk that the job doesn't last very long) or try to find someone passionate about whatever it is you're doing who has the skills you don't have and wants to jump in with you.