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I am looking for a co-founder

7 points by juwo 20y ago

juwo 20y ago
I am looking for a co-founder Qualities: -ability to get things done. -integrity. honest and fair, but also being able to recognize the truth/reality (critical for business success, I believe). -determination to dig out of a hole; perseverance but not stubbornness. -humility; accepting the possibility you could be wrong even when you think you are right. willing to learn from others and situations -admit responsibility when you screw up. Skills: Either business skills or the stuff I am deficient in: flash (seems like cool demos cant exist without them), javascript (to manipulate different media players), and able to design nice web pages. If you are a developer, I expect you to be very competent. I have an application that IMHO is different. It is close to beta, and I wrote it in Swing, Java. However, people say it is not user friendly. I have also lost a lot of time (in part, because I am cautious and also had bad advice. I should have released it long ago). I am willing to give you a one hour online demo/presentation. However I would need some kind of assurance from you that the ideas will not be copied nor given or divulged to potential competitors. Please email me and tell me more about yourself and if you think there might be a good match. thanks, Anil Philip anil@juwo.com http://juwo-works.blogspot.com/ http://juwo-works.blogspot.com/ http://juwo.com http://juwo.com
- abstractbill 20y ago
  "If you are a developer, I expect you to be very competent." You don't expect other people you work with to be equally competent? Maybe you wrote it this way because you find other competencies harder to evaluate. If that's the case, try the "animal test": http://www.paulgraham.com/start.html http://www.paulgraham.com/start.html
  - JoeEntrepreneur 20y ago
    Exactly. There is no point in expecting cofounder to be competent in same areas. What is more important for cofounder is share same passion as you do. Technical stuff can be learned. Languages and technology comes and goes.
    - juwo 20y ago
      passion is emotional. It is necessary. Unfortunately, brains and talent are also required and are innate.
  - juwo 20y ago
    Are all the developers you ever worked with, competent? :) (It is likely there are people in my past who didnt think I was).
rms 20y ago
How do you make money?
- juwo 20y ago
  2 main ways. - consumer pays $5 to upgrade viewer to editor because it is a useful tool. - banner advts where media player is playing. Theoretically if only 0.1% upgrade, and you have a website that is 1% of youtube traffic - 660K unique visitors per month, then you would have about $1.6M per year for that website. Of course, I am mindful of the "China Coke problem" - where we pick large enough market numbers to get overly optimistic projections.
jsjenkins168 20y ago
Anil, you forgot to mention where you are geographically located. To be successful it would probably need to be someone who is close to you.
- juwo 20y ago
  I am in Kansas City. Yes, ideally cofounders should live close by. But cant we work remotely?
juwo 20y ago
Please visit http://juwo.com http://juwo.com
- jkush 20y ago
  Your navigation links are broken. They still have the 8080 port reference from your development code.

7 points by juwo 20y ago

juwo 20y ago

I am looking for a co-founder Qualities: -ability to get things done. -integrity. honest and fair, but also being able to recognize the truth/reality (critical for business success, I believe). -determination to dig out of a hole; perseverance but not stubbornness. -humility; accepting the possibility you could be wrong even when you think you are right. willing to learn from others and situations -admit responsibility when you screw up. Skills: Either business skills or the stuff I am deficient in: flash (seems like cool demos cant exist without them), javascript (to manipulate different media players), and able to design nice web pages. If you are a developer, I expect you to be very competent. I have an application that IMHO is different. It is close to beta, and I wrote it in Swing, Java. However, people say it is not user friendly. I have also lost a lot of time (in part, because I am cautious and also had bad advice. I should have released it long ago). I am willing to give you a one hour online demo/presentation. However I would need some kind of assurance from you that the ideas will not be copied nor given or divulged to potential competitors. Please email me and tell me more about yourself and if you think there might be a good match. thanks, Anil Philip anil@juwo.com http://juwo-works.blogspot.com/ http://juwo-works.blogspot.com/ http://juwo.com http://juwo.com

abstractbill 20y ago
"If you are a developer, I expect you to be very competent." You don't expect other people you work with to be equally competent? Maybe you wrote it this way because you find other competencies harder to evaluate. If that's the case, try the "animal test": http://www.paulgraham.com/start.html http://www.paulgraham.com/start.html
- JoeEntrepreneur 20y ago
  Exactly. There is no point in expecting cofounder to be competent in same areas. What is more important for cofounder is share same passion as you do. Technical stuff can be learned. Languages and technology comes and goes.
  - juwo 20y ago
    passion is emotional. It is necessary. Unfortunately, brains and talent are also required and are innate.
- juwo 20y ago
  Are all the developers you ever worked with, competent? :) (It is likely there are people in my past who didnt think I was).

rms 20y ago

How do you make money?

juwo 20y ago
2 main ways. - consumer pays $5 to upgrade viewer to editor because it is a useful tool. - banner advts where media player is playing. Theoretically if only 0.1% upgrade, and you have a website that is 1% of youtube traffic - 660K unique visitors per month, then you would have about $1.6M per year for that website. Of course, I am mindful of the "China Coke problem" - where we pick large enough market numbers to get overly optimistic projections.

jsjenkins168 20y ago

Anil, you forgot to mention where you are geographically located. To be successful it would probably need to be someone who is close to you.

juwo 20y ago
I am in Kansas City. Yes, ideally cofounders should live close by. But cant we work remotely?

juwo 20y ago

Please visit http://juwo.com http://juwo.com

jkush 20y ago
Your navigation links are broken. They still have the 8080 port reference from your development code.