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I'm looking for a co-founder, or really a partner, because my company is already founded. My product is currently in Beta and I should be releasing V1 soon. Y
by scottdw2 17y ago
I'm looking for a co-founder, or really a partner, because my company is already founded.
My product is currently in Beta and I should be releasing V1 soon.
You can download a copy of my product here:
http://www.transactor.com http://www.transactor.com
If you are interested, please send mail to:
cofounder@transactor.com
I'm looking for an engineer who can help start work on V2 of the product.
The basic qualifications that I'm looking for are:
1. You have to be willing work with out pay (in return for a big chunk of equity), until we start generating revenue.
2. You have to be ready to make a firm commitment to the business.
3. You have to be a hacker.
4. You have to have at least 7, but preferable 10 years of programming experience. This doesn't mean you have to be 10 years out of school. If you are 23, just graduated from college, but have been programming since you were 13, that would qualify as 10 years of programming experience. This is pretty firm. I need to know that you will be able to work independently, at a high level, from the "get-go". If you can't hit the ground running then it isn't worth the cost of brining you on board.
5. Your experience should have some significance. If your 10 years of experience is really 1 year of experience 10 times over, then it doesn't count. It can be stuff you did on your own, or in school. However, you should have a list of impressive projects that demonstrate you are a top notch programmer. For example, in the course of getting a BS in Computer Science, I was able to accomplish the following projects:
a. I wrote a compiler
b. I converted a Java data flow analysis framework that worked over source, to also work over byte code
c. I wrote an implementation of the genetic algorithm
d. I wrote a library that added method injection (before and after methods) to C#
Plus I worked full time as a programmer while going to school full time.
6. You can't be a snob. If you are the type of person that thinks "all Windows Programmers are idiots", then I don't want you. Transactor makes tools for programmers. Windows programmers are the largest segment of the developer market.
7. You have to be interested in building a business, not in career advancement. You aren't going to get promoted. If we succeed, you may get wealthy. That has to be enough. If you want to build a business, so that when it grows you career will advance, and you can fulfill your life long dream of being a middle manager, I don't want you. Transactor eschews "career thinking".
8. I don't care where you work from. However, you have to be willing to fly out to Seattle to do an in-person technical interview.
- icey 17y agoMaybe you and jcrocholl should touch base with each other. Also: what platform are you developing on? Is this a C# application?
- jcrocholl 17y agoMaybe, but I don't qualify for all points, especially number 6 -- I'm a terrible snob and will avoid the Windows platform whenever I can. Also, I don't see the need for Transactor Code Agent if you have good version control (e.g. git).
- icey 17y agoOkay, maybe I was wrong. I'm terrible at developer matchmaking :D As an unrelated point, what's the startup scene look like in Seattle? I'm looking to start-up and willing to relocate, but my wife hates San Fran, so unless I can find a SV suburb that's more midwestern (read: strip malls and yards) then I have to look elsewhere.
- scottdw2 17y agoI appreciate the attempt. Thanks. Seattle has a very healthy startup scene. If you want to you should come into Seattle and checkout Startpad (startpad.org). That's where I have my office at. They lease office space specifically to software startups. There's a good mixture of early stage and later stage companies there. The "biggest" company there is Rescue Time (I think they were funded by YC). In any case it's in Pioneer Square, which is basically startup central. I'd be happy to show you around (and of course try to convince you to come work with me).
- jcrocholl 17y agoI would be interested to meet you for coffee and a Startpad tour.
- scottdw2 17y agoSeattle is not really Midwestern. I would say, if anything, it's more European. I'd say it's a nice place to live. My wife and I are both from WI and we like it here.