I am looking for a co-founder

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6108

by juwo • 19 years ago

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juwo6• 19 years ago

I am looking for a co-founder

Qualities:

-ability to get things done.

-integrity. honest and fair, but also being able to recognize the truth/reality (critical for business success, I believe).

-determination to dig out of a hole; perseverance but not stubbornness.

-humility; accepting the possibility you could be wrong even when you think you are right. willing to learn from others and situations

-admit responsibility when you screw up.

Skills:

Either business skills or the stuff I am deficient in: flash (seems like cool demos cant exist without them), javascript (to manipulate different media players), and able to design nice web pages.

If you are a developer, I expect you to be very competent.

I have an application that IMHO is different. It is close to beta, and I wrote it in Swing, Java. However, people say it is not user friendly. I have also lost a lot of time (in part, because I am cautious and also had bad advice. I should have released it long ago).

I am willing to give you a one hour online demo/presentation. However I would need some kind of assurance from you that the ideas will not be copied nor given or divulged to potential competitors.

Please email me and tell me more about yourself and if you think there might be a good match.

thanks,

Anil Philip

anil@juwo.com

http://juwo-works.blogspot.com/

http://juwo.com

abstractbill• 19 years ago

"If you are a developer, I expect you to be very competent."

You don't expect other people you work with to be equally competent?

Maybe you wrote it this way because you find other competencies harder to evaluate. If that's the case, try the "animal test": http://www.paulgraham.com/start.html

JoeEntrepreneur• 19 years ago

Exactly. There is no point in expecting cofounder to be competent in same areas. What is more important for cofounder is share same passion as you do. Technical stuff can be learned. Languages and technology comes and goes.

juwo6• 19 years ago

Are all the developers you ever worked with, competent? :)

(It is likely there are people in my past who didnt think I was).

rms• 19 years ago

How do you make money?

juwo6• 19 years ago

2 main ways. - consumer pays $5 to upgrade viewer to editor because it is a useful tool. - banner advts where media player is playing.

Theoretically if only 0.1% upgrade, and you have a website that is 1% of youtube traffic - 660K unique visitors per month, then you would have about $1.6M per year for that website. Of course, I am mindful of the "China Coke problem" - where we pick large enough market numbers to get overly optimistic projections.

jsjenkins168• 19 years ago

Anil, you forgot to mention where you are geographically located. To be successful it would probably need to be someone who is close to you.

juwo6• 19 years ago

I am in Kansas City. Yes, ideally cofounders should live close by. But cant we work remotely?

juwo6• 19 years ago

Please visit http://juwo.com

jkush• 19 years ago

Your navigation links are broken. They still have the 8080 port reference from your development code.

I am looking for a co-founder

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