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India's population is growing faster than China's. I wasn't aware of that. According to this article (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/16/world/asia/16census.html), India will overtake China in 2025. Learn something new every day.

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Congrats!

iiijjjiiion Has anyone just completed an exit?

Generally a business goes through three stages: innovation (create and fine tune the product), growth (increase market share through marketing), and harvest (maintain large customer base). We experienced all three stages with our first company. Each stage is unique. Each requires a different mode of operation. They require different talents, different ways of thinking, and different filters for making decisions. Conventional wisdom says this is the desired course of a business. You start out small, innovate, grow a customer base into a huge corp and then harvest the rewards.

After reading Paul Graham's "How to Make Wealth" essay, we had an 'aha moment'. It's not necessary for a business to do all three stages. In fact it's not efficient and usually not desirable. Some people/companies are good at innovation, some are good at growth, and some are good are harvest. Each should focus on their strengths.

The model of creating startups and then exiting is about focusing on the innovation stage.

iiijjjiiion Has anyone just completed an exit?

How would you go about finding co-founders?

We've run a decent company in the past. We're going to start another. We're looking for 2 or 3 co-founders. We've tried different things, posting on startup blogs but the responses were generally from people with little experience or others who were fixed on a pet project they've been working on after hours. So we created a website with info and posted a link here hoping for some constructive feedback.

Do you have any other suggestions?

iiijjjiiion Has anyone just completed an exit?

Yeah, I know what you're saying. However, we often fool ourselves about what we're capable of. If someone has developed a startup and completed an exit and they're prepared to go at it again, that speaks much louder than someone who claims they are willing but has never done it.

iiijjjiiion Has anyone just completed an exit?

If you pose a general question to a startup crowd "Are you interested in joining a startup" you get everyone and their grandmother responding. The "completed an exit" requirement acts as a filter. We're hoping it will improve the signal to noise ratio.

iiijjjiiion Hnsh - Hacker News from the command-line

Yeah, that page is certainly helpful.

iiijjjiiion Hnsh - Hacker News from the command-line

If you're involved in a comment thread, the discussion stays alive better if you respond promptly. But how do you know if people when people have responded to your comments? You can refresh the page but if you have several threads on the go at the same time, this might not be practical.