Who is starting a company and needs tech advice?

4 points·jacopotarantino··4 comments

I'm interested in lending what knowledge and experience I have to non-technical or technical founders who need help getting set up with the right people, the right technologies and the right methods so they don't have to recode the same website 4 times in their first year. Anybody interested or know a good place for me to find the founders I'm looking for?

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Have you checked HN's jobs section? You'd probably get more attention responding to a thread there or maybe posting your own if that's in the rules.

If you pitch in with non-technical founders, be prepared to have them question a lot of your recommendations and decisions. Do you have the patience for that? Be sure to choose wisely... your advice probably won't turn around a couple of clueless suits. You can't run a startup the same way you'd run a big business, and anyone with that in mind isn't going to, on faith, listen to the contrary advice of a hire.

In other words, don't do this as an act of charity for someone you think will fail without you. You're investing your time, so spend wisely. Just a reminder.

I appreciate the feedback a lot, thanks! I haven't checked the jobs section yet but it's on my todo list now. I think I have the patience to defend a lot of decisions. I'm looking more to trade advice for stock than just do it for charity. I realize that for many startups that will eventually work out to just charity though haha. Here's hoping I choose wisely :)

What is the rate on the knowledge-and-experience loan and what is the term?

I'm open to negotiating :)

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