Tech Lead w/ 15+ years of experience, looking for a Co-Founder
Hi all,
I'm an experienced tech lead and a startup CTO with 15+ years of coding and 8+ years of management experience, located in Amsterdam.
I can build technology fairly well, but I don't like to deal with the marketing, finances, investments, legal documents, and such things involved on the business side.
So, I'm looking for (a) co-founder(s) to take care of everything except the technology.
I have a bunch of ideas, from SaaS to mobile apps to A.I. and infosec, all of which I can develop.
However, I don't have a particular project in mind. I'd love to have business partners to discuss, brainstorm, and work together for long hours.
Feel free to connect me on LinkedIn if you're interested:
https://linkedin.com/in/ulsc
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Hey!
I'm currently looking for a technical co-founder as I work on building my startup in the digital health & wellness space.
I'm developing a wellness platform that provides personalized, easy-to-understand self-care recommendations & education. Our mission is to empower individuals with the confidence to manage their own health by providing accessible, individualized, & comprehensive health education.
Reach out to me on LinkedIn if any of the above interests you! :
https://www.linkedin.com/in/josephinepepa/
Or via email at: [email protected]
Hi Ulas! We have just opened a venture building branch at https://revido.co -- I'd love to get on a call and see if we can collaborate on anything :) @ulsc
Nice to read you post, I'm trying to improve my project as I'm currently working alone, maybe you might be interested, have a look at my dev version the demo creds are working.
I'm pretty proud of it it's a personnal file managing, with a really powerfull search engine in order to find everything that you need just with one word that is contain in you document. Try it, you have some tickets and you can use it to search for the name of the waiter or the food that was ordered and it will find your document.
I would love to brainstorm with you and also help you, I've 3 years of dev with NodeJs and React, some knowledge in java (android) and would not mind doing a bit more of admin stuff in exchange for some help on the tech side ;-)
Cheers from Switzerland
Hi Thomas,
I'd love to brainstorm as well. Please feel free to add me on LinkedIn. Cheers from the Netherlands :)
I'd love to help you out with the marketing side of things. Sending you a connection request on LinkedIn.
Hey Ulas, I am currently working on a project I think you may be interested in. What is your email address as I would like to send you my pitch deck?
Hi Kareem, you can reach me from LinkedIn. I've included the link in the post.
Hi Ulas, I am not on LinkedIn. Do you suggest another platform?
Sorry Kareem, that's all I have.
you probably better off doing something by yourself, most of the non tech people here are looking for free labor with nothing tangible beyond "I can try", some are not even bothering to do any work beyond the "idea" state.
At lest if you build something yourself you will do something you like.
have a read here:
https://www.indiehackers.com/post/why-you-wont-find-a-tech-cofounder-77baebbd35
This can be solved in your first call with a potential candidate if you know what you are looking for. A few questions on the project goals, market research, analysis projections, etc.
Coming from the non-tech side of projects, this is how I proceed with ideas:
If all or most of the above boxes are checked, then it may be a good idea to dig deeper.
The most difficult thing to overcome is your own bias. Normally we love our own ideas, and we are not open to accept they suck, which most of them do...
Happy to keep talking about all this or to discuss some project with the community.
This is where things go, sideways, even with all the "boxes are checked" as you say the end result is the risk of the project is entirely on the technical side of things as a proper development requires time and most ideas are not simple 2-3 weeks dev time to make it work.
So the dev person needs to spend 2-3 mounts (may be even more) time that it is significant financial investment and risk from their side (especially for the good devs) and meanwhile the non tech person can do little to nothing about the project waiting for things to get done (may be some testing when there is something to test) and continue working fulltime on other things with no financial risk at all.
Obviously there are some good ones, that have the understanding of how the specific market work and the connections to make the project successful, but after more than an year here, I have not yet found one of those.
(I did found a lot of people that got in trouble pairing with the wrong tech partner but this is entirely different conversation)
Hey @petrovn, every person in the project should be collaboration based on their expertise and divide the workload as much as possible. Of course, only the developer can code the app/service into existence, but the other person can provide all the wireframes, wireflows, prototyping, mockups, design, user stories, user research, etc. Providing all that info to the developer takes time, and I am sure makes the life of the developer easy.
On all projects I have worked till now, there is never a moment where I am doing nothing for months, while the developer is working. You can start working on SEO, client outreach, testing the first drafts of the product and bringing focus groups to test the MVP. I guess you had really bad luck this past year in here.
Glad to keep chatting about this or to jump into a call for future projects!
Best
may be it is bad luck as you say, so I decided instead of working on something with very unclear prospects to something for fun, unfortunately the fun part is mostly done and now I'm in the not so fun part of sales, marketing and finding customers in general.
@petrovn thanks for getting back! I am happy to jump into a call with you to see if I can help or provide some ideas/directions. Do you have any link or site I can check?
my profile or
https://remos.io , https://app.remos.io
user: [email protected]
pass: password1
if you want to have a look around
Hi Nikolay, thank you for the advice.
I've already built and building projects on my own and with different teams for quite a while. The thing is, working alone and having to think about everything by yourself starts to be boring after some time.
By the way, I got some cool responses from LinkedIn mentioning this post. I don't know if any of them would turn into a thing, but anyways, I'll try my best.
If you would like to upvote the post, it may also help me find someone :)
Thanks again.
Hey Ulas,
Are you still looking? If yes, check my latest post. We’re also based in Europe.
Sure,
My LinkedIn is still up, please feel free to connect.