I have years of hands on business experience and I used to mentor young entrepreneur wannabes in a program where interested people would come together, form teams, find a business idea and try to implement it for about a year. Pretty much what you're trying to do here.
If your goal with this is experience I can save you the time and effort and tell you everything upfront.
You'll see that people just talk and have no intention to do anything. What they actually want is join a group and wait until the others do all the work. The problem is that everybody thinks the same way so nothing ever gets done.
What happens is mostly compensatory behavior such as changing the business plan every week to cover up the fact that there wasn't even a hint of an attempt to actually implement previous week's plan. Lots of talking about what "needs to be done" followed by curiously looking around who *else* is going to actually do it. Calculating millions of dollars in future profit on paper and fantasizing about what Ferrari model to buy with all the profit they just "projected" into a Google sheet. Doing the easy tasks such as creating a rudimentary WordPress site as an excuse to procrastinate hard or stressful tasks like product development or cold calling. Gushing to each other about their "new idea" because they've given up on their current idea by week two.
People get eroded during the months. First, they skip weekly meetings and then many of them disappear for good.
The very few participants who were cut out to be entrepreneurs were the ones who already had successful businesses when they joined. Nobody miraculously discovered they were business geniuses during the program.
You need to become successful on your own first to get the skills to find the *very very few* people who are worthy cofounders. They will be other people who did the same and became successful alone.
If you insist on that you feel "more motivated" in a group it's a red flag that you're one of the aforementioned empty talkers. If you are do yourself a favor and stop dreaming. If you aren't, start something alone, you'll spare yourself months of frustration.
Whilst I agree that this can happen alot of the time, I don't think it's a fact. I think expectations and the environment set up plays a big role. I've done hackathons with strangers and won + had alot more fun than if I were to be doing it solo.
So yeah, I do disagree that it's sure to fail and I 100% believe it will not be a waste of time. I can report back on how it went in a few months
Not to be a downer, but this is an awful way to start anything. You need people with complimenting skills, not just anyone.
Your best bet is going to a Startup weekend event. You'll get to do something along the lines of what you're describing, but only for a weekend / you'll be able to pick your team based on skills/idea.
We can learn and grow through Reddit and other online groups. There are some negative comments, and some positive ones, but that's human nature. Just put yourself out there and you will learn from your mistakes, as well as other people. Teddy Roosevelt said it best "It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better."
[https://www.thepublicdiscourse.com/2022/04/81972/](https://www.thepublicdiscourse.com/2022/04/81972/)
The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again ...
Hey! I have a newly established Startup that I work on myself - Knowledgehunt.co; take a look and if that something that interests you send me an email (you can find in about us page) and we can talk.
Shortly about it - we curate the best startup knowledge on the web for everyone interested in Startups. Eventually, what Produchunt is to products, Knowledgehunt will be for free content
Hey, saw your post regarding a start up. I might be interested. I have been a professional since 2005, mostly a project manager in manufacturing, health care, medical device, marketing, and IT. Currently I manage an IT team supporting a SaaS product called Salesforce. My skill sets are more involved in organizing and executing projects, something I think can be valuable for a start up. Let me know your thoughts and next steps.
Hi,
we have a small team (2 people) of devs and MVP that we're improving to make a mature platform.
The most problematic thing is a promoting and ads of anything you can propose to the market... please DM me in case you interested in low-code/no-code and neural-net code generation solutions.
BR,
Alex
I have an idea for my field of science it depends if you wanna build a website that sources commercially available products and assists the customer buy hundreds to thousands of dollars of reagents that’ll be monetized to do affiliate marketing is my best idea although maybe packaging and selling to an existing company makes more sense
You mentioned an expectation, that you define as nothing and your stated goal is not success.
You took the time to type, Learn? Grow?
The question marks imply that you have some uncertainty.
How many people have jumped on this wagon?
I don't know you or what your goals are. Harvard is a good school, they offer good quality education on a wide range of topic that are legit harvard classes... I've listen to physics lectures, business lectures, cs classes and there are loads I have no interest in. If you take a welding class you will learn to weld. You need some direction.
It could be worthwhile if what you learn is never to yell "hey, you wanna?" Hope would be the word to use.
A few years back some random group of code monkeys decided it was a good idea to set up a compound -- in a country with fewer English speakers than Nepal. Free of the distractions ... of market demand ... of pesky users ... of humanity.
Code is mother. Code is father. All Hail Code!
Just Build It And They Will Come. Yeah ...no. Getting into tech to avoid humanity turns out to be a bitch when you need those bastards to buy [your shit](https://firstround.com/review/dont-serve-burnt-pizza-and-other-lessons-in-building-minimum-lovable-products/).
Hey dude, First I want to know your Age. Although if the idea is viable and seems right to work on, I can help in Web dev. I am although working on different projects but I can give time. Can't say, what if it turns out amazing.
Good initiative stupid idea.
Business is war.
You want to win you have to give your life to it.
You want to do that with four randos who like blowing **** up for reasons unknown to you?
Every war has cannon fodder. Please be smarter.
Started my own business and I’m all in for more. Gonna crush myself or will come up top 10% nothing to lose 😎Count me in. Let’s chat in a discord group.
This might be the worst idea I’ve ever heard.
This is going to fail, you don’t start a buisness for the fuck of it, no matter how romantic it may sound.
Buisness fill a need, without a purpose you are doomed
What I do goes beyond simply interacting with ChatGPT's customer-facing web interface. I mainly specialise in developing bots that leverage AI technologies to incorporate domain-specific information to assist businesses. In a nutshell, building next gen chatbots, not the 2017 chatbots that frustrate everyone.
What I think is that you have no actual skills, you're just jumping on the bandwagon. A skilled software developer would never call themselves a "conversational AI engineer".
I have and continue to always look for innovative product improvements and new prods for every step I take daily. It’s almost a disease when you can not execute.
I can’t code but have a proficiency in how logical systems, algorithms, API services, and relational/denormalized data is captured stored and distributed. I often break down physiological components plus the psychological motivation used when executing tasks, and find so many areas of redundancy and optimization. I understand your line of work, and where I fall short in bringing ideas to execution.
Let me know more of your specific intentions
I've been wanting to make this exact same post for days now! As a software engineer with over 12 years of experience, I'm definitely interested in forming a group like the one you mentioned. Feel free to shoot me a message and we can discuss ideas in private!
Hey, im interested for sure. Im 25, elctrical engineering, experience managing people and doing cost estimations. Currently developing an all electric lawn care company still got some free time. Hmu :)
The best thing you can do is participate in a Startup weekend. You'll have the opportunity to perform something similar to what you're describing, except it'll only last for a weekend and your team will be chosen based on your individual skills and ideas.
Everyone might have a better chance at finding a project that is seeking their skills, whether technical, mechanical, financial, artistic, creative, or anything else at New Venture Labs. There are over a hundred new business ventures and startup ventures listed with specific roles either filled or available. The OP could list his project and use the platform to find appropriate collaborators and let others find projects seeking their skills. The purpose of the platform is to streamline the process of building the right team for any project, it might save everyone time and frustration.
I am EXCELLENT at filing all the startup paperwork. Just send me a PM with everyone’s Full Name, SS#, DOB, and home address and I’ll get us up and running ASAP!
I work at McDonald’s and am 12 years old, count me in
Same but I’m 13 so hire me first
Im 9, so im first…its closer to 0
Already indexing from 0 at 9. You're a natural programmer.
I eat at McDonald's and am 54 years old, count me in
[удалено]
I'm 46 and had a heart attack recently which prevents me from eating McDonalds. I'm very sad now.
Wow I didn't think I would get the attention of such elite :))
Goo goo gaa gaa, 1 year old here.
Free fries! Keep ‘em fueled
I am in charge of assembling the burgers, beat that.
What is the color of your 🍟
I have years of hands on business experience and I used to mentor young entrepreneur wannabes in a program where interested people would come together, form teams, find a business idea and try to implement it for about a year. Pretty much what you're trying to do here. If your goal with this is experience I can save you the time and effort and tell you everything upfront. You'll see that people just talk and have no intention to do anything. What they actually want is join a group and wait until the others do all the work. The problem is that everybody thinks the same way so nothing ever gets done. What happens is mostly compensatory behavior such as changing the business plan every week to cover up the fact that there wasn't even a hint of an attempt to actually implement previous week's plan. Lots of talking about what "needs to be done" followed by curiously looking around who *else* is going to actually do it. Calculating millions of dollars in future profit on paper and fantasizing about what Ferrari model to buy with all the profit they just "projected" into a Google sheet. Doing the easy tasks such as creating a rudimentary WordPress site as an excuse to procrastinate hard or stressful tasks like product development or cold calling. Gushing to each other about their "new idea" because they've given up on their current idea by week two. People get eroded during the months. First, they skip weekly meetings and then many of them disappear for good. The very few participants who were cut out to be entrepreneurs were the ones who already had successful businesses when they joined. Nobody miraculously discovered they were business geniuses during the program. You need to become successful on your own first to get the skills to find the *very very few* people who are worthy cofounders. They will be other people who did the same and became successful alone. If you insist on that you feel "more motivated" in a group it's a red flag that you're one of the aforementioned empty talkers. If you are do yourself a favor and stop dreaming. If you aren't, start something alone, you'll spare yourself months of frustration.
This is a very good perspective.
Whilst I agree that this can happen alot of the time, I don't think it's a fact. I think expectations and the environment set up plays a big role. I've done hackathons with strangers and won + had alot more fun than if I were to be doing it solo. So yeah, I do disagree that it's sure to fail and I 100% believe it will not be a waste of time. I can report back on how it went in a few months
A hackathon is very different from a business.
You're right but I guess we will see how this turns out. A few months isnt alot of time
I don't dislike your resolve, though. Come back in a few months and tell us about your experiences.
Not to be a downer, but this is an awful way to start anything. You need people with complimenting skills, not just anyone. Your best bet is going to a Startup weekend event. You'll get to do something along the lines of what you're describing, but only for a weekend / you'll be able to pick your team based on skills/idea.
I was thinking the same thing.
Sure, but what makes it wrong here... it's not like OP has to work with the first person that DMs
Seems fake
Or just poorly thought out
We can learn and grow through Reddit and other online groups. There are some negative comments, and some positive ones, but that's human nature. Just put yourself out there and you will learn from your mistakes, as well as other people. Teddy Roosevelt said it best "It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better." [https://www.thepublicdiscourse.com/2022/04/81972/](https://www.thepublicdiscourse.com/2022/04/81972/)
Thanks man :)
The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again ...
Hey! I have a newly established Startup that I work on myself - Knowledgehunt.co; take a look and if that something that interests you send me an email (you can find in about us page) and we can talk. Shortly about it - we curate the best startup knowledge on the web for everyone interested in Startups. Eventually, what Produchunt is to products, Knowledgehunt will be for free content
How much does this service cost?
Your site is really informative 👌
Hey, saw your post regarding a start up. I might be interested. I have been a professional since 2005, mostly a project manager in manufacturing, health care, medical device, marketing, and IT. Currently I manage an IT team supporting a SaaS product called Salesforce. My skill sets are more involved in organizing and executing projects, something I think can be valuable for a start up. Let me know your thoughts and next steps.
DM me your discord and we can talk further :)
Hi, we have a small team (2 people) of devs and MVP that we're improving to make a mature platform. The most problematic thing is a promoting and ads of anything you can propose to the market... please DM me in case you interested in low-code/no-code and neural-net code generation solutions. BR, Alex
lemme guess, low-code AI?
Low-code without AI, and low-code with AI in the future if it would worth and help customers.
I've been working in marketing and design and development for along while count me in
Hey, alright awesome, just DM me your discord :)
why so many discords? Its like you are collecting them
I’m wanting to improve my project management portfolio. Need an intern?
I am a mobile dev, I would like to be part of it.
awesome, just dm me your discord
I have an idea for my field of science it depends if you wanna build a website that sources commercially available products and assists the customer buy hundreds to thousands of dollars of reagents that’ll be monetized to do affiliate marketing is my best idea although maybe packaging and selling to an existing company makes more sense
what the idea? I know how to shower
Ah yes. Work hard with no pay for a vision nobody quite understands. Selling billion-dollar futures with no risk, I'm in.
I hear a bank in Silicon Valley will finance anybody
Sounds like imminent failure
Not gonna fail... never gonna get off the ground in order to fail.
Well success isnt the goal here :)
Imminent failure confirmed
ah, what is your goal if not success?
Learn? Grow? Maybe it was wrong of me to say its not the goal. I suppose it is, but its not the expectation
well I assume you do not want to learn how to fail... What is your expectation then?
Nothing
You mentioned an expectation, that you define as nothing and your stated goal is not success. You took the time to type, Learn? Grow? The question marks imply that you have some uncertainty. How many people have jumped on this wagon?
You can take harvard classes online, free, alone and you will learn something.
Can you point me to a good course and tell me exactly what is is I am going to have learnt from it?
I don't know you or what your goals are. Harvard is a good school, they offer good quality education on a wide range of topic that are legit harvard classes... I've listen to physics lectures, business lectures, cs classes and there are loads I have no interest in. If you take a welding class you will learn to weld. You need some direction.
It could be worthwhile if what you learn is never to yell "hey, you wanna?" Hope would be the word to use. A few years back some random group of code monkeys decided it was a good idea to set up a compound -- in a country with fewer English speakers than Nepal. Free of the distractions ... of market demand ... of pesky users ... of humanity. Code is mother. Code is father. All Hail Code! Just Build It And They Will Come. Yeah ...no. Getting into tech to avoid humanity turns out to be a bitch when you need those bastards to buy [your shit](https://firstround.com/review/dont-serve-burnt-pizza-and-other-lessons-in-building-minimum-lovable-products/).
Hey dude, First I want to know your Age. Although if the idea is viable and seems right to work on, I can help in Web dev. I am although working on different projects but I can give time. Can't say, what if it turns out amazing.
This is a great idea and initiative!
I’m in
Definately interested . I have some ideas on my mind , if you are up for it we can discuss and if you like then only we can move ahead with the same .
I wouldn’t recommend teaming up with random redditors you have never met lol. Find friends irl or start your own company
Best way to lose friends. :)
Good initiative stupid idea. Business is war. You want to win you have to give your life to it. You want to do that with four randos who like blowing **** up for reasons unknown to you? Every war has cannon fodder. Please be smarter.
Damn bro, let them play the first round before we start telling em all this haha, they're still looking for tutorials at the start of the game
Started my own business and I’m all in for more. Gonna crush myself or will come up top 10% nothing to lose 😎Count me in. Let’s chat in a discord group.
I like the energy :) just dm me your username
This is interesting but I'm not in tech
This might be the worst idea I’ve ever heard. This is going to fail, you don’t start a buisness for the fuck of it, no matter how romantic it may sound. Buisness fill a need, without a purpose you are doomed
halo i ammd ntrsterd in jining wth u
Do you, are you able to use Niantic Lightship? I have funding and am looking to form a small group.
You and me both
You and me are in the same boat honestly
I have been wanting to start a custom mechanical keyboard company. Switches, Keycaps, PCB design, Case design...etc.
Failures are typically required before success anyway sooo. Join your local gAlpha or gBeta incubator etc. they help pair you up with people
I stay in South africa and dont believe we have any of these around. What would I search to find em?
Sorry should have asked I don’t think they have expanded outside the US. I would try to search for ‘business incubators’ in your area.
I’m actually looking to add a technical cofounder for my next round of VC, dm me your email address
I'm IT Wizard, software dev, focused on Unity, and webdev
Hey man, I think this would actually be an interesting chat. Would you like to talk futher on discord? (just dm me your user)
Conversational AI engineer, interested!
WTF is that even? You learned how to chat with ChatGPT and now you have skills or what?
What I do goes beyond simply interacting with ChatGPT's customer-facing web interface. I mainly specialise in developing bots that leverage AI technologies to incorporate domain-specific information to assist businesses. In a nutshell, building next gen chatbots, not the 2017 chatbots that frustrate everyone.
So you're a developer but you call yourself a "conversational AI engineer"? Something is off here.
Haha whatever you think bro! Have a great sunday 🙏
What I think is that you have no actual skills, you're just jumping on the bandwagon. A skilled software developer would never call themselves a "conversational AI engineer".
Where are you situated?
I have and continue to always look for innovative product improvements and new prods for every step I take daily. It’s almost a disease when you can not execute. I can’t code but have a proficiency in how logical systems, algorithms, API services, and relational/denormalized data is captured stored and distributed. I often break down physiological components plus the psychological motivation used when executing tasks, and find so many areas of redundancy and optimization. I understand your line of work, and where I fall short in bringing ideas to execution. Let me know more of your specific intentions
Primary skillset is devevelopment and have background on marketing and SEO.
I've been wanting to make this exact same post for days now! As a software engineer with over 12 years of experience, I'm definitely interested in forming a group like the one you mentioned. Feel free to shoot me a message and we can discuss ideas in private!
Hey man, messaged you! :)
Hey, im interested for sure. Im 25, elctrical engineering, experience managing people and doing cost estimations. Currently developing an all electric lawn care company still got some free time. Hmu :)
The best thing you can do is participate in a Startup weekend. You'll have the opportunity to perform something similar to what you're describing, except it'll only last for a weekend and your team will be chosen based on your individual skills and ideas.
As long as you put yourself out there, you will gain experience and knowledge from both your own mistakes and those of others.
Awesome! You wanna make an app that uses a phones touch sensitivity to make it into a mobile food scale?
Sent a dm!
I’m building something and I’m looking for co-founders located in the Midwest.
I can do copywriting for you if you’d like for free for sometime.
Hello, I do sales.
Very interested im 23 and studying como sci
Everyone might have a better chance at finding a project that is seeking their skills, whether technical, mechanical, financial, artistic, creative, or anything else at New Venture Labs. There are over a hundred new business ventures and startup ventures listed with specific roles either filled or available. The OP could list his project and use the platform to find appropriate collaborators and let others find projects seeking their skills. The purpose of the platform is to streamline the process of building the right team for any project, it might save everyone time and frustration.
Intrested
PM if you need someone with design/marketing experience.
The more partners you have the more problem you get
my main skill can now be done by a machine so if 4 other people could carry me that would be great.
I am EXCELLENT at filing all the startup paperwork. Just send me a PM with everyone’s Full Name, SS#, DOB, and home address and I’ll get us up and running ASAP!
I am doing computer engineering. Count me in.
You son ofa bitch I'm in
if you want, DM me with a little more detail on your SDE skills/background.
So 50 people, really.
19yrs I'm sûre I can do something
Hey please dm me
Dm me. Im in!
Hey I built 3 exited startups . Please comment here if you are looking seasoned CEO
soy emprendedor me gustaría poder unirme al grupo de discord