Actually Im looking for exactly this kind of Technical Cofounder role. What Im looking for in a non-technical cofounder is - - Singleminded, self disciplined, driven person with a clear vision - Business+People skills and experience, obviously - grounded in reality, organised, and actually gets-stuff-done - idea that does have a paying market, solves a pain point - some level tech and design awareness - some open-mindedness to modern technical strategies - has generated some funding
Warning signs : Someone who thinks PHP is the only language is probably not going to excite me. Someone who describes creating new software as 'coding' probably has no understanding of whats under the hood Positive signs : If a biz-geek/entrepreneur has made faltering steps towards implementing an actual technical solution..in chicken-wire and selotape [PHP :] then that is a huge plus. If they have drawn up what the software might look like, thats a huge plus. Any other sign of tenacity in achieving practical results leads me to believe this person will succeed. ie. that my work in building state of the art software to realize their business vision will pay off. portable CTO ? Pollenizer seems to fill a concrete need... but I think there is another niche where you have more sustained focus of a fulltime dedicated CTO during the initial growth phase of the startup to ship product v1. Thats precisely what I want to be doing - backing a great entrepreneur during that intense rapid growth phase, and building the technical team. I was lucky when I worked for magicdraw.com, as Chief Architect at their Asian dev studio... I basically had the freedom to build up a technical team and deliver two new shrink wrap products. Effectively I got away with creating a startup within a larger organisation. Skunkworks/Guerilla/Aikido development at its best. After this I guess theres no hope for me - Im hooked on the buzz of delivering the new new thing. So.. If you truly are the real deal and looking for a tech cofounder / CTO.. do get in touch. cheers, gordon. On Apr 5, 10:11 pm, Roger Kermode <roger.kerm...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 are just starting > our, but the need is the same and it also appears to be pervasive. I'm > wondering what people who have overcome this hurdle did to find someone, and > if there's something more that we can do to help accelerate the process for > people new to this situation to find a competent, trustworthy tech guru to > get something going. > > thoughts? > > Roger -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Silicon Beach Australia mailing list. Guidelines on discussion: http://groups.google.com/group/silicon-beach-australia/msg/351e183e1303508d?hl=en%3Fhl%3Den No lurkers! It is expected that you introduce yourself. To post to this group, send email to silicon-beach-australia@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to silicon-beach-australia+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/silicon-beach-australia?hl=en?hl=en
