I run a small, but successful Web1.0 company, but am looking for a new bright spark as Hacker Entrepreneur in Residence.<p>What’s that? All the fun of a startup without all the risk. YC folks who don't want VC might be interested.<p>inevitable.cc or http://tinyurl.com/5hr434
This looks like a cool op. 99.9% of people can't afford to do a startup unless it has near-zero costs.<p>Of course, a lot of what makes startups succeed is scarcity of resources and fear of imminent and public failure. You're taking that away and functionally creating an incubator, which have long histories of producing mediocre startups/products.<p>If I were you, I'd adjust it to:
1) Pay bread/water wages.
2) Give them skin in the game (equity). As much as you can stand.
3) Tell them they have 6 months to build something people want/like or their salary goes to zero and they can continue on like any other entrepreneur (for the love/belief in the project and the hope that they can make it go big).
4) Hire 2 people, not one.
This doesn't make any sense to me. What do you get out of it? What do you require of said hacker? Do want partial ownership or just someone to bounce ideas off of? What do you mean by in-residence combined with we-don't-care-where-you-live?<p>There's really not enough info there for someone to decide if it's interesting or not.