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Help Wanted: Co-Founder’s Needed

Posted by SRSimko on November 11, 2009 · View Comments 

Help Question - Designer - Harwen ZhangOne of the main requests I get when communicating with entrepreneurs is, do you know someone with site development expertise. We all learned how Joe Essenfeld of LocalBacon found Jason Roberts (for those who don’t, Jason Roberts was an “Ask Jason” caller and Joe searched him out) I was wondering what you all think is the best way to connect?  I know a few groups exist on LinkedIn and I have seen a few sites trying to build a community.  Has anyone had any luck using a site?  If so which?

JT a recent caller of “Ask Jason” asked me to pass on this request:

I’m looking for a CTO/Cofounder who is interested in collaborating with me on the launch of an innovative and comprehensive solution involving selective/educational crowdsourcing to assist companies from small mom & pop’s and the prefunded to the Fortune 500 in regards to their branding initiatives.  This isn’t a rehash of crowdspring.com or 99designs.com.  It will focus on an extremely neglected area of the market with a niche focus near term and more holistic applications as this platform gains traction.  I’m looking for a partner with great technical and developmental expertise who is capable of managing this project from alpha to launch.  If you’re interested please feel free to contact me at http://scr.im/thought.

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  • KellerII
    Good advice, John. At this point that's what I am doing. I'm working on putting together some wireframes and then progressing to a mockup with some functionality for demoing purposes. I have the obligatory PPT deck and financial projections/models as well. I agree with you about the naming/branding piece, but that falls right in my wheelhouse...it would be great if someone came up with a solution for that ;) Again, great advice and I appreciate your feedback.
  • What a perfect time for this post, this was discussed in tonight's episode of TWiST (with Matt Mullenweg). I wouldn't say completely but it was hit upon, what seems important is the idea, the mission and to be part of something big.
  • Recent advice to me was, create an html/photoshop mockup, and then get a freelance coder to add at least some functionality. Then it will be easy for a potential partner to see what you're doing and that you're bringing more to the table than just the idea. I would say too, that owning a killer generic, highly brandable domain name that perfectly matches the product could also help attract a partner. And if you had to spend some money to accomplish all that, your development partner wouldn't be worried about investing a bunch of hours on spec- he'd see that you already had some 'skin in the game'.
  • Great advice, I would also think selling the idea would be huge. If you can't get someone to buy off on the idea they will never get on board. Needless to say your concept and idea has to be thought out to pitch a potential partner.
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