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Yep, that is typical. 90% of the time, I am approached by someone who says "We have 90% of that things done and ready to go, we just need you to come on board a
by EternalFury 14y ago
Yep, that is typical. 90% of the time, I am approached by someone who says "We have 90% of that things done and ready to go, we just need you to come on board and make it your own."
The problem is that I cannot make "my own" something I had absolutely no part in, from its inception.
I guess there could be some odd situation where someone comes up with something in the exact same manner I would have, but the chances of that are low.
The other typical behavior is business people who believe "the idea" is everything and that the building of "it" is a trivial task that a tech co-founder will want to tackle because they are unable to formulate ideas on their own.
[The reality is that ideas are a dime a dozen and execution is 99% of success. And tech co-founder will be as much business-oriented as any entrepreneur must be.]
- SparksZilla 14y agoOkay there have been so many comments in here the echo this and I'm just fascinated by this point. I think somebody should write a "before you look for a technical co-founder, make sure you're not planning on making any of the following amateur mistakes." Would anybody want to help contribute if I do a post on that?
- ArbitraryLimits 14y agoDude. It's like Open Source. If you've got an itch, scratch it. Write the post and submit to HN, you'll get contributions out the wazoo.
- SparksZilla 14y agoHaha well I just wrote this one today, but touche. I'll get to work.
- jchin 14y agoMy company did a pivot last year but before that, we did a survey on this topic. http://www.launchbit.com/blog/why-you-cant-recruit-a-technical-cofounder/ http://www.launchbit.com/blog/why-you-cant-recruit-a-technic... I apologize that in migrating our blog to Wordpress, things seem to have gotten a little mangled.