I've always had the entrepreneurial bug (selling websites on craigslist when I was 13), and feel I'm now in a good place financially, skillset wise (my last role was a tech-lead / cto with management experience, but many years as very fast generalist developer), and life to go in on a business idea.<p>My financial goals are to bootstrap something to 10's of millions and become financially independent.<p>It's my belief that the best / easiest way to accomplish this is to work with someone who has really deep industry experience and connections in a non-traditionally-technical field (construction, supply chains, healthcare, etc), and solve a niche problem that only someone with years of industry experience could identify.<p>My assumption, though, is that people with that sort of background do not traditionally hang out on reddit or HN -- does anyone have any experience or suggestions on where to find them?<p>I did check out YC's Co-Founder Match Maker, but so far most of the profiles have been either successful founders who are looking to go the fundraising route, or younger marketers / MBA's who don't necessarily have deep industry experience.<p>Thanks in advance!
I am a founder with deep domain expertise in healthcare, I do hang out on reddit and HN. There is actually lots of us.<p>(also - technical and don't believe in co-founders, so not a good fit).<p>Anyway - what I found useful is to simply build and talk to folks, and people just want to join in on building. They just want to see something tangible and real before jumping in with someone they don't know.
> My financial goals are to bootstrap something to 10's of millions and become financially independent.<p>I have confidence you can find many people with the same fantasy. I mean goals. You don't even mention what kind of domain expertise you need.<p>Construction, supply chains, healthcare, and probably most of what you swept up into "etc." are not "non-traditionally-technical" unless that means "not usually run by nerds and tech bros." All of those industries have long and deep reliance on technology. From my own experience, technology in logistics and supply chains predates software development and "tech" as a discrete industry.