Some points, some of which have been partly or mostly made in the
thread:
1. A potential technical cofounder might be the first person besides
you being asked to put serious skin in the game. Maybe your idea is no
good or you're not convincing enough that you're going to add value.
The putative te
There are many different variables. Including luck. There is no way I was
ever going to learn to code and build a saas app. I have no where near
enough money to pay one as an employee. So when the idea fisrt came about in
my head, I immediately kept a look out for Talent. Luckily, my co-founder
(TE
Yup this is what Pollenizer does. The challenge is that Pollenzier can't
service everyone, in fact many people need help to even get themselves
prepared before talking to Pollenizer, and that as a result there are many
folks out there who miss out for the want of tiny amount of focus. What I'm
wond
I also feel this is a particularly relevant/useful thread for this community
and there's a huge amount of collective wisdom in the posts so far. A few
thoughts...
How many of the requests for technical co-founders are real? Is it something
they'd liked to do but aren't really prepared to quit t
Trust me, Margaret Gees is rubbish. If your a small start-up any media
database is overkill for you. And I say this as a company that sells a media
database.
If you don't have budget to use an agency, just pick out the top half dozen
publications you think you want to attract and just keep close t
On 05/04/2011, at 10:34 PM, Aegist wrote:
For every need like that, I always wonder if there is a business
solution. I feel like there is scope for organising a group of young
programmers, and instead of finding clients, you just find good
startups that need technical co-founders, and offer
One of the easier ways is to go to the startup camps. Meet a few tech people
from different teams, work with them in a high pressure situation and see if
you can gel with them.
Often the projects fall apart after the weekend, sometimes it does not. But
you'll certainly meet a lot of talented tech
If you are a non-tech founder, please also compare your situation to
somebody who is trying to build a new business in another area, say a
new type of printer or a new type of washing machine. If you are
looking for a tech co-founder in that space, what is it you are really
trying to find? An engin
I have been in this situation before. Whilst it was good to explore some
technologies the sweat just wasn't worth it.
*+1 to execution is everything*.
*+1 to 20% share is bullshit.*
At some stage I will be looking for another tech founder... And to be
honest I am not looking forward to the proc
I'm in SF at the moment, and I'm gob-smacked at the number I've times
I've heard this "shortage of tech people" story in the week since I've
been here. I haven't seen anything like it since I was here in 2000
just before the crash - not saying that's coming, but we're certainly
in a bubble.
These
True, there is so much information, tutorials and help that learning to code
is just a matter of allocating time to learn it.
Every new project changes and needs to be adopted to whatever
new realizations about the business come up. This is very difficult when
there is another person coding. I had
Flies have jobs?
On 5 April 2011 04:32, Renai LeMay wrote:
> No offence, but this list is very out of date and inaccurate. Journos
> change jobs like flies.
>
> On Apr 5, 4:57 pm, "Nick Holmes a Court (BuzzNumbers)"
> wrote:
> > A list of journalists interested in covering tech startups was bui
>
> It seems like all coders I have met are employed or are working on their
> own projects. Having all of the boxes ticked from my end is useless if I
> can't even find a coder who is willing to listen to the complete business
> plan.
Here's an obvious question: why don't you learn to code? Bard
As someone who has an idea, has had a trial version of the idea running for
a few years with plenty of good information gathered from that process, has
a solid business plan, has a proven track record of success in internet
marketing, and has the right sorts of skills needed to bring my project to
And to add to the comments about equity - make sure all founders are on a clear
vesting program, with a mechanism to handle a divorce (say, you get $X per
week/month if this doesn't work out); of course, the trigger for "not working
out" is a whole other problem.
You don't want a "we'll go 50%/
This is a brilliant thread!
Nick's post encapsulates many of the issues facing both tech and not-tech
entrepreneurs. Times are quite interesting, as the tech startup market has
really exploded again, even here in Australian, that every second day someone
speaks to me about their "next big thing
It's about having a sense of and relationships with the local media as much
as having a list of journalists.
I don't work in PR any more but I did so for years and I'm happy to provide
some input on a volunteer basis for any initiatives like this that are
focused on the start-up community as a
+1
Great post Nick. As a technical founder this paragraph hits the nail on
head.
On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 10:51 PM, Nick HaC wrote:
> From the few technical founders i know - they regularily have
> non-technical people coming to them with all sorts of questionable
> (even valueless) ideas and want
Hi isaak,
Thanks for the post. Unfortunately For me i cant do this in the us or have a
big cheque book. I am going to speak to some people who are currently doing
this here to find out how they are handling it.
Sent from my iPhone
On 05/04/2011, at 11:03 PM, Isaak wrote:
> Hi James,
>
> I g
Great post!
Just an additional thought...
I actually think watching the movie "The Social Network" will tell you
why a technical co-founder may not be prepared to waste their time on
your idea and your features when you are a non-technical founder.
Admittedly, Mark Zuckerberg in that movie is not
Thanks for all the suggestions!
Have already contacted a bunch of people and am organising coffees as
we speak.
Great to see us teasing out a list of Aussies in NY.
@Matthew Ho - Don't have a lot of experience in the Valley but the
thing about NY is that there's a massive amount of resources and
Hey Renai, you've followed Startmate since we started and written some
great stuff about it, we really appreciate it. Yesterday was a
potential investor day rather than a press day so we didn't explicitly
invite press, though you would have been welcome, and I'd done my best
to remind people about
Excellent post Nick! As a some-time techy guy I can sympathise with a lot of
those points. Someone thinks their idea is so amazing that developers should
be falling over themselves to work for months for free. That just proves
that they haven't read the copious literature on startups which shows th
I would recommend Nick Crocker, who's experienced, frighteningly
intelligent and generous with his insights, but I just saw him in
Sydney last night and he's back in AU for a while to come.
Alan
On Apr 4, 2:01 am, kimheras wrote:
> Anyone know any Aussie's working on/with startups in NYC?
>
> I'
Interesting problem.
Seems more and more non-technical founders are looking to start tech
startups which is great news and should be encouraged
With the increased demand for technical founders now stronger than the
supply, it makes sense that technical co-founders (especially the good
ones) are a
Hi James,
I get a different answer from everyone I talk to about this. However
when talking to the banks along with guys like eway and PaymentExpress
they all seem to say effectively 'don't bother' as it's ether too
hard, or too expensive as you require enough insurance to cover your
behind. Admit
For every need like that, I always wonder if there is a business solution. I
feel like there is scope for organising a group of young programmers, and
instead of finding clients, you just find good startups that need technical
co-founders, and offer your teams services in exchange for equity.
You
Dear Si Beachers
I'm chatting with a lot of folks these days through my various activities
and I'm finding a common theme: People who have a great idea they want to
validate and pursue, but are stumped for the want of a technical co-founder.
Some of these folks are highly experienced execs, some a
See linke, not specifically related to start-ups, it's more PR focused
around the industries in which you wish to sell, which is probably
more important, no?
Ms Gee's collection is like the Bible - purchase a good quality
version, keep it close to your pillow, and read it regularly for
identifying
Excellent – looking forward to it!
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Hi Kate,
Rest assured that the mentor group's current Sydney centricity is purely a
function of happenstance at this stage and that Pushstart is most definitely
a national initiative. As you'll note from our values on
http://www.pushstart.com.au/about we're all about helping the startup
community
I spent a while following quite a few journalists in Australia today:
http://twitter.com/#!/list/beilabs/au-and-nz-press-list
The spreadsheet is now editable:
https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AnWUxomtv0QgdDI4WU5sUGZyNmdwOFB1TmRGLWYzbXc&hl=en&authkey=COWblJIN#gid=0
Add away, if any new one
Hi everyone,
Last week I got to do my first pitch about my startup at SydStart and I
realized that I love pitching :)
I am addicted.
*What are the upcoming events in Sydney where I could pitch?* (mostly for
awareness and feedback in my case, but other people might be interested to
know to get fu
Some good comments on this from Aussie software developer Justin J.
Moses in late January:
'An Australian developer in New York'
http://delimiter.com.au/2011/01/28/an-australian-developer-in-new-york/
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I can vouch for the "interact with journos on twitter" thing, I've been
interacting with Renai for a while now ;)
Seriously though, building a relationship with journos is never a bad thing.
Simply doing the PR thing is a bit meh these days (though that's not to say
that PR's aren't bad, they do h
No offence, but this list is very out of date and inaccurate. Journos
change jobs like flies.
On Apr 5, 4:57 pm, "Nick Holmes a Court (BuzzNumbers)"
wrote:
> A list of journalists interested in covering tech startups was built during
> the sydney startupcamp 1 and 2 in
> Sydneyhttp://www.startup
hey Rai,
I follow the Startmate blog, Twitter account, individual Twitter
accounts of quite a few ppl involved, other startup blogs, know most
of those backing it personally, am on Silicon Beach and didn't hear
anything about the launch before I saw the hashtag going wild
yesterday. I don't know w
Hey Roger/Kim,
Congrats again on the launch! Looks promising.
If you're ever in Melbourne – feel free to get in touch.
The mentors you've got at the moment appear to be rather Sydney-centric (in
fact I could only see one non-NSW person!) and I could recommend some of the
startup crowd here.
C
Hey Jonathan,
I tried to add my details to the Google Doc but it seems locked.
Anyway, my details are below.
Cheers,
Renai LeMay
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Also Denis Hurley of Mobile Meteor.
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Do you know *Antony* McGregor Dey (@antonymd) of QM Codes? He's been in NYC
for a year or so working. He also organises Mobile Mobile New York (and
Melbourne) so is a great person to know.
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Drinks are on again this Thursday.
Join ~40 of us at Hare & Grace – 525 Collins Street from 6pm.
http://www.meetup.com/Melbourne-Silicon-Beach/events/17079122/
We'll be outside near the entrance if the weather's nice or inside mingling
at the bar.
Hopefully this will be a quieter venue than t
Yeah, that Presslist Australia spreadsheet has become a bit of a staple for
startups – definitely recommend starting from there.
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