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I am looking for a co-founder(s) for my innovative start-up in the online tickets sector. Please contact alexander@ticketfeed.com for further details.

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I am looking for a co-founder(s) for my innovative start-up in the online tickets sector.

No you're not. If you're looking for people to work on your startup, you're looking for employees.

Co-founders are people who co-found a company with you. Co-founders help decide the early direction of a company. Co-founders are owners of a company.

You've already decided what sector the company is going to be operating in ("online tickets"), what the company is going to be called ("ticketfeed"), something about how the company is going to operate (if you haven't, what justification do you have for calling it "innovative"?), and you've fallen into the bad-CEO trap of calling it "your" company.

If you really want co-founders, you probably meant to write something along the lines of "I am looking for co-founders, ideally people interested in online tickets because I have some ideas for that sector."

No, I am simply looking for people looking to join my startup i.e the startup I represent.

so, employees

Or partners. Partners don't need to be co-founders, but can have the same control and say.

Might it be cynical to think that calling someone a co-founder after the event is a way of getting them to work for nothing? Of course if the idea is a good one and the share allocation to the new recruits is substantial then maybe...

You can pay someone nothing and give them more stock than the founders have, and it won't make them a co-founder. :-)

So what do you call someone who joins a company before any salaried employees and has equity comparable to that of the founders?

If they don't have any input into the direction the company takes, I'd say that "fools" is a reasonable thing to call them.

Isn't that a separate issue? You can be part of a company from day one and not have any input into its direction, and maybe sometimes you can join late and have significant influence on future decisions.

Conversely, you can pay someone a salary and give them less stock than they should really have as a cofounder, and they might still be a cofounder.

As you said, it's to do with the impact that the person has on the business from inception onwards.

I disagree. A lot of it is semantics, but I consider co-founders the crew that comes on board and takes a risk with you from a pretty early phase. If we take anyone new on our team in the next couple of months, they'll be co-founders, with shares and all that jazz. When my co-founder came on, I'd already started hashing through the idea and asked if he wanted to take on some of the business elements of it.

I think most ideas originate with one person, then they pitch it to their circle of contacts and then once things get underway, the idea starts growing around the abilities and ideas of those persons. I'd again say that there's not enough, rather than too much info here.

Would you still be throwing a fit if he had just typed "an" instead of "my"?

As far as I can tell, all he has is the URL ticketfeed.com. Nothing says the company has been established yet, and I think this would still count as "early". I would imagine he is offering equity.

So he is guilty of calling his idea "innovative" and using "my" in reference to his startup.

Also, if things don't work out, I'll give you $250 & Teddy Grahams for your domain (http://ticketfeed.com). Maybe we can have a similar arrangement for http://TicketStumbler.com if things don't work out for us.

Good luck finding your "cofounders" - this is a fun business to be in.

Warm regards,

Dan

Cofounder - http://TicketStumbler.com

Ooo goodie. A http://TicketStumbler.com competitor (that's our company). Alexander, if you're looking for employees you should check out the job listings at http://Lab256.com. They have millions in funding and are backed by General Catalyst (they are a competitor too).

So I'm guessing people give in a list of artists they are interested in, and your site gives them an rss feed of the cheapest, nearest and best tickets when those acts are in town?

Good idea!

Why is this being voted up and not being counted as spam? This is absolutely a waste of my time, and a waste of a space on the front page.

Please, stop posting co-founder searches.

But what about pseudo-co-founder searches? :)

Especially if you just registered to post this. People would be more tolerant if you've been around awhile and actually contribute to Hacker News.

this is another case of "I got a great idea, build it for me and we'll both be millionaires!"

At least it is better than:

"Hey, I know someone's son who can build me a video site for $300 and Google bought Yahoo for $1.65 billion, so I'm going to be a billionaire too."

I actually know someone who said almost this exact thing in November of 06, although I think it was spread out over about 4 sentences.

He then threw in that he wanted the site to "have Web 2.0 and Ajax" which I still remember the exact quote vividly, as if it was an afterthought.

If all it took was a couple hundred bucks, I'll take 2 or 3.

Please contact me at the e-mail address above for more information.

Strike! And he's outta here!

As I've said, I am looking for additional people to start the company with. That simple.

Can you give us a little more to go on? You are posting from an account which was created one hour ago and you can't say a thing about where you are based and what your track record is with startups. If you can't give a little, you probably won't get a lot.

You can find a lot of information in the whois for the domain, from which you see that he is located in the UK. Then you follow his domain name email address to alexandermacgregor.net which then redirects you to his linked in profile. And from which you can then follow links to his younoodle that has his resume + pic. http://younoodle.com/people/alexander_macgregor

Cliffs from that info: 21 year old from U.K, still in college pursuing a management degree while working as a "buyer" at some energy company.

Vaksel,

Do you happen to have "Private Eye" or "Ninja" as any of your qualifications on your resume? If not, you need them.

Karma for you good sir!

Well its easy when they have all that info on their whois info, but with Google anyone can be a private eye, most people make it very easy to find their info since they use the same usernames on all the sites they visit. So you have 2 options really, a)use a separate username for each website or b) use only one username but make it so generic that if someone searched for it, they'd get a lot of irrelevant junk

That is one pimp bootineer.

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