Qualities:
-ability to get things done.
-integrity. honest and fair, but also being able to recognize the truth/reality (critical for business success, I believe).
-determination to dig out of a hole; perseverance but not stubbornness.
-humility; accepting the possibility you could be wrong even when you think you are right. willing to learn from others and situations
-admit responsibility when you screw up.
Skills:
Either business skills or the stuff I am deficient in: flash (seems like cool demos cant exist without them), javascript (to manipulate different media players), and able to design nice web pages.
If you are a developer, I expect you to be very competent.
I have an application that IMHO is different. It is close to beta, and I wrote it in Swing, Java. However, people say it is not user friendly. I have also lost a lot of time (in part, because I am cautious and also had bad advice. I should have released it long ago).
I am willing to give you a one hour online demo/presentation. However I would need some kind of assurance from you that the ideas will not be copied nor given or divulged to potential competitors.
Please email me and tell me more about yourself and if you think there might be a good match.
thanks,
Anil Philip
anil@juwo.com
You don't expect other people you work with to be equally competent?
Maybe you wrote it this way because you find other competencies harder to evaluate. If that's the case, try the "animal test": http://www.paulgraham.com/start.html
(It is likely there are people in my past who didnt think I was).
Theoretically if only 0.1% upgrade, and you have a website that is 1% of youtube traffic - 660K unique visitors per month, then you would have about $1.6M per year for that website. Of course, I am mindful of the "China Coke problem" - where we pick large enough market numbers to get overly optimistic projections.