Partnering up vs. starting your own business

@rjacks , if you some project to work on and if you are looking for a non-technical partner, check out GitHustle (www.githustle.com). GitHustle is a cool platform giving life to side projects by connecting developers with projects with the right kind of partners, marketers, growth hackers, and traction builders.

Yeah I met someone at a Meetup last December and they have sales/marketing/design experience and we just work really well together. It's far more productive than being on my own.

No story for me, but you have kind of meet-a-cto meetup on a regular basis to match a non-technical and technical partners to create a new startup, at least in Paris, France. It could be a way to meet you next partner.

Beyond the technical side of things, do you have a preference for the sort of problem you'd like to solve?

One thing I think that's important about pairing up cofounders is your ability to disagree with things in a non-personal manner. For example, since you both have different experiences you should have certain views on how things are to be done. Obviously, you have technical experience but any experience in strategy is helpful too. Especially when growing the business at the very beginning.

I am a developer and last year I worked on 3 projects part time. I don't have time to finish all of them and am willing to share equity if anybody is interested.

I need 1 dev and 1 marketing guy ideally.
The projects are an online gaming website, a crypto currency website and a language learning website.

I am still looking into ways of generating trust since the legal way is way to complicated for a startup. One way would be just to transfer the domain rights so you will have one of the 3 domains, but you will work for the progress of all 3 domains to assure that we will transfer the domain rights between each other at set period of time.

So if you know your web-development or you are confident in your marketing ability to bring attention please contact me.

websites are flash.pm, lipy.cc and 1pixel1satoshi.com

Be VERY selective about who you partner with.

As for an idea, there's nothing better than validated demand in a growing market, where you have useful insights and personal interest.

Lots of small experiments to test and validate prospective partners and ideas!

Good luck.

There is no right/wrong answer with this, but having a complimentary co-founder is a def advantage

I don't consider myself technical (because I don't code) but I understand enough of the code/tech in order to be able to communicate effectively - it is a good idea that you have some business/marketing knowledge

I've always hired developers (as contractors) - pretty sure you can hire non-tech people depending on your needs - but I would be much happier if I had a tech co-founder

I was able to get a prototype of the product launched and on the about page of my website, I put a message saying something like this:

"Do you care about using technology and design to X more effectively? Do you know a thing or two about Y? If so, email me and ask how we can collaborate."

I got a traffic spike during the product launch and from that I had a couple of people read the message and contact me. One of them turned out to be a great fit for a cofounder (plus he had some solid domain knowledge).

I'm going through the same thing but with the reverse problem. I have a lot of experience marketing but 0 tech skills. I'm slowly learning some development skills but I'm feeling like maybe I should stick to what I'm strongest at and most passionate about and then partner up with someone.

I signed up for Cofounderlab, founder2be, and maybe a couple others. Haven't been valuable at all. It seems like the most valuable experience is either 1) working with someone or 2) meeting someone in person.

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