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Looking for non-technical cofounder

I'm very ready to take my web site public, it would be really helpful to get someone experienced in community management/public relations on board. This is a good opportunity for a person skilled in webmarketing/copywriting to become second cofounder in a promising startup.

We can go with a contract-like engagement initially, $100 per few hours/day, + stock

I'm London based, though you don't necessarily have to be. Please respond to alexthefounder at googlemail.com

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Wait, you want to have them as a co-founder and you want to pay them a hundred bucks an hour?

I can see one or the other, but not both. If the amount of stock is trivial then they're an employee or contractor, not a co-founder. And if the amount of stock is large then you shouldn't be paying them that kind of money as well.

Not per hour. The point is to avoid usual confusion at the initial stage of getting into the context of the project. People can be afraid to spend that extra hour to get fully aware of the thing and without that hour they just pass off not understanding the idea at all.

Later on the person have to decide if s/he want to continue as "true" founder, non paid in cash :)

How about a little hint as to what area your startup is in? Some of us here are definitely interested in working in X, but not Y.

My project is featuring a new approach to meet people online, dating so to say, but completely different from the rest, believe it or not :)

Why limit yourself to a non-technical cofounder? Are you a single founder or are there other hacker founders working with you?

I wanted to highlight the fact that having good communicating skills is a must for second cofounder. At the moment I'm alone and since the project is mostly done, I would not expect to need someone technical, unless things will go really well :)

I recommend contacting Chris Messina [http://twitter.com/factoryjoe] and Tara Hunt [http://twitter.com/missrogue]. Tara wrote the book on "social capital" (i.e. community building).

They look pretty busy already :) I think that having someone to contact me after reading my post on YC could be interpreted as a sign of that person "startup readiness"

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