Money is the usual way. But in your case, you can make someone an equal partner. Working with you versus working for you might be an important difference for

Money is the usual way. But in your case, you can make someone an equal partner. Working with you versus working for you might be an important difference for people in your existing network. That's important because based on the lack of interest from people you know, the idea of working for you doesn't seem to hold much appeal. Is your job to make yourself rich? Or is it to make everyone rich? All the work is ahead. Pick someone you want to make rich. If your network still balks, you've learned something important about how you've treated people. If someone jumps, you've also learned something important...in addition to what you have already learned. And again, all the work is ahead. What you have done is sunk cost. You need another person to get the work ahead done. The best person has the same motivation as you. Besides if you go unicorn, you will probably get rich enough slicing the money pie one more time. Finally, your ability to identify smart is probably fallible. If you think most other people are stupid it surely is. Good luck.