Have any of you ever considered building something on your own, and trying to bring someone on-board with something in hand, instead of joining a co-founder dating site?
This is becoming a repeating theme here on HN and it seems like its another way for the people who aren't doing anything to feel like "entrepreneurs". It also seems like what takes place at a lot of conferences these days and especially on twitter.
If you're serious about building something, build it. If it's any good, even if incomplete, people will want to join you. It doesn't matter what it is. Really. The guys building the traffic/headline grabbing companies today are just farther along in the process. You can't get there without starting somewhere.
Are you a business guy looking for help building your idea? Outsource it. Pay someone to build it for you. Don't try to "convince" someone else to join your vision and build it for you.
This stuff has to be obvious to 95% of the members on this forum.
Sorry for the rant but this nonsense is getting old...
Absolutely... but that assumes two things:
a) you're the person with the idea AND
b) you're the developer.
If you're not A or B then you need to find somebody that is...
I came up with this idea because I was A for quite a while... but I did want to get into the space. I'm good at executing, but at the time wasn't so good with coming up with ideas (you may still think that is the case ;) )
I also know that business-development and marketing are not my strongest areas of knowledge....
so I went in search of business guys who had a great, marketable idea but nobody to build it for them...
I'm pretty sure I'm not the only one... though maybe I'm in the minority on this particular news site :)
Also - I'm not sure if I read it from Seth Godin or 37signals, but I do like the idea that if you can't convince at least one other person, then maybe you should reconsider the idea...
This is becoming a repeating theme here on HN and it seems like its another way for the people who aren't doing anything to feel like "entrepreneurs". It also seems like what takes place at a lot of conferences these days and especially on twitter.
If you're serious about building something, build it. If it's any good, even if incomplete, people will want to join you. It doesn't matter what it is. Really. The guys building the traffic/headline grabbing companies today are just farther along in the process. You can't get there without starting somewhere.
Are you a business guy looking for help building your idea? Outsource it. Pay someone to build it for you. Don't try to "convince" someone else to join your vision and build it for you.
This stuff has to be obvious to 95% of the members on this forum.
Sorry for the rant but this nonsense is getting old...