I'm not sure there's a reasonable compendium, but Paul's written a lot on such in his essays. There's some here: http://www.paulgraham.com/start.html http://w

I'm not sure there's a reasonable compendium, but Paul's written a lot on such in his essays. There's some here: http://www.paulgraham.com/start.html http://www.paulgraham.com/start.html For me it's pretty simple, though finding and verifying is the tricky part. - You have to be able to put up with them. A lot of them. Really a lot of them. It's kind of like getting married there. - They should be able to do something essential to the company's survival. And they should do that while "getting" what you're doing and thinking it's special. - You trust their judgement. Enough to bet a few years of your life on it. "Art of the Start" also has some decent info there.