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Ask HN: Asking for community help without implicating company or co-founders
I've made previous questions here ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5060421 ) and in other places asking for help, mostly wanting mentors, accelerators, and things like that.
Except my co-founder don't want any of this, and most of this is for whole companies, not individuals.
I still think I might appreciate help as individual, and I would love to be in contact with some people, but I cannot talk if the other person interacting with me think I am speaking for my company, since my co-founder don't want it.
For example: How I can enter in contact with the people listed here: http://www.quora.com/Startups-in-Brazil/Who-are-the-leading-startup-mentors-in-Brasil if they all own accelerators or schools for entire companies, and my co-founder told me he don't want a accelerator?
- rglovejoy 14y agoIt sounds like you and your co-founder are not meshing well. If your co-founder is not open to listening to outside advice, maybe you should look into working with someone else.
- speeder 14y agoHe only do not want accelerators now, he prefer to search for angel investors and do stuff his way. I personally don't have much of a choice, he is a good co-founder in general, and he and his investors have the money :)
- gverri 14y agoHi, I think I can help you. I have direct contact with some of the referred mentors. If I think they might be interested in your project I could hook you up. If you want to succeed here in Brazil you need connections. That's the key resource to make your project successful if you're targeting the brazilian market.
- speeder 14y agoI am target lots of markets, but Brazillian market is one of the primary ones. I make tablet apps (for several OS), all of them have portuguese as one of the main languages (all apps launch at least in french, portuguese and english).
- gverri 14y agoI see. And what exactly are you in need of?
- speeder 14y agoI don't know. Except I am sure being a complete loner is not right (ie: I have zero in person or possibly in person business contacts). The company need investors, but like I said, my associate want to take care of that. I personally want to learn more in general, learn about marketing, and about making good products :)
- speeder 14y agoI remembered I read somewhere in a blog post in HN, that one of the most important things is have friends, and friends that can lift you instead of bring you down. I have some friends, but usually I am the leading one in everything, it is a lonely and tiring position, where I don't have people to aspire to be like them, or to admire, or to ask advice, people come to me to ask advice and learn, but I have noone to do that, people come to me wanting to do what I do, but I have noone to do what they do... It is kinda bad. For a long time I ignored this, until I had for some short time a girlfriend that was way above me in social class, it was a totally different world, and it was the time that I mostly advanced in several areas, even talking with only her (I never met anyone she knew), I had to raise the bar in many areas, learn a lot, behave better, learn better, and so on, it is when I noticed that I had a loooong way to go, and when I am at the top, there are no perspective to know what way I should go, thus I need to be friends with other people, people that make me be on the bottom again, so I can follow them until I am equal to them. I think this much explains my motivations right now...