[Follow up last month: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2608849]<p>Please describe:<p>- your expertise (startup and/or prior work)<p>- desired skill set(s) of a co-founder<p>- whether you have an idea that you are committed to or you are willing to explore other ideas<p>- areas of interest
Expertise:
3rd year computer engineering student, run my own freelance web design & dev company since 17 - akpro.net. My personal portfolio, aysark.com. UI/UX & frontend developer with decent backend experience.<p>Desired skill set:
We are looking for a backend (PHP/MySQL) and/or mobile developer. This is our priority atm, but if you have something else unique (ie. marketing/business guru)- shoot me an email. (Currently a team of 2 cofounders, looking for a 3rd to tie the knot)<p>Idea:
Currently working on a new recently launched startup, Studygig.com - a search engine and hub for university/college students to find, share and list study material. Customer has been validated and idea has 2nd-mover advantage, with emphasis on product and traction.<p>Interest:
Making the web a better place. Based in Toronto, Canada.<p>Contact:
ak@akpro.net
Experience: Data Storage, Prior Startup founding experience (small angel funding, failed), MBA. Semi-technical - Enterprise Systems experience only, no development experience. All experience in Enterprise Domain, Like Customer facing Roles. Believe in Lean Startup.<p>A co-founder with prior startup experience, either technical/engineering or business development. Capability to commit some money and can live without income for at least a year. Business/Technical knowledge in one or more interests listed below a plus.<p>Interests: Data Storage, Big Data, Data Mining/Machine Learning. Currently looking at recommendation/similarity area. Focus on Enterprise Domain. Mobile Apps with Enterprise target may be of interest too.<p>Open to exploring ideas together.
- Apple Computer, eBay, Yardbarker, Apture now fulltime on Open Home Pro<p>-I need a cofounder who is a great backend engineer or loves iOS (Objective C)<p>-I'm committed to Open Home Pro, have over 8k users<p>-Currently based in Dog Patch Labs in San Francisco.<p>Andrew
My experience is in the industry domain, tech commercialisation and fundraising. Some start-up experience, just quit academia to turn my vision into reality.<p>You know your way around Ruby/Python, API development, Web Services, JSON, Apache, MySQL, Linux, Unix, Design Patterns or comparable Plus you have a burning desire to join and grow a start-up.<p>An incubator wants to fund our concept for a novel B2B platform. I'm looking for a second hands-on technical co-founder to round the team and to help us turn the mock-ups into an MVP and then on to launch and beyond.<p>Based in Cambridge/London UK. Get in touch with me at dapgutmann@gmail.com
(using throwaway account for this because I'm disclosing details of my current startup)<p>Background as software developer, currently sole founder of another startup which is cashflow positive (monthly revenue in thousands) but doesn't look like it will scale easily, hence looking at starting a new startup.<p>Have an idea for a startup operating in the advertising space, essentially taking a product that's available to entreprise companies (and typically sold with consultancy as an add-on) and making it available as "self-serve" to small & medium size businesses.
-Previous startup was acquired. Have done other business and investments prior. Worked both on the business and technical side so skil<p>-Would be cool find another badass hacker to work with. Haven't really looked but anyone that wants to connect, feel free to reach out.<p>-No idea currently. Just exploring and hacking random stuff at the moment.<p>-Got a list of things I wouldn't be interested rather than things I am interested in. Anyone that is interested can email me. Email is in my profile.