TechCofounder.com: Meet Technical Cofounders for your Startup

Re:TechCofounder.com: Meet Technical Cofounders for your Sta... by andrewstuart on Sunday February 14, 2010 @04:23AM (#1124340)

This basically seems to be a job board.

If I was building a system like this I would allow people to post an ad about the company they are starting, their location, the people currently involved, something about the vision of the company (without giving away too much), the expectations of how much work is involved, are the other people full time, equity on offer, the skills, experience and qualifications of the other co-counders, does location matter, do you need to be in the same city etc etc etc.

Instead this odd site assumes that searching for cofounders is about placing job ads. A bit strange.

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Re:TechCofounder.com: Meet Technical Cofounders for your Sta... by jasonkester on Sunday February 14, 2010 @09:09AM (#1124604)

I wonder if that's just emergent behavior.

It's possible that the first several postings along the lines of "Smart programmer wanted as co-founder for new social networking concept (that also shortens urls)", but it has since been noticed by recruiters as a "free job board" and thus is filled with "Programmer/Analyst III with J2EE" positions.

Perhaps they need to work on the tech a bit to discourage the job postings and encourage the actual entrepreneurial stuff.

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Re:TechCofounder.com: Meet Technical Cofounders for your Sta... by techcofounder on Sunday February 14, 2010 @05:09PM (#1125385)

Hi Andrew -

Techcofounder.com is not a job site. It's meant to help entrepreneurs find technical people who are interested in doing a startup. Engineers create profiles listing skills, experience, etc. They aren't posting job ads.

-Ben

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Re:TechCofounder.com: Meet Technical Cofounders for your Sta... by alain94040 on Sunday February 14, 2010 @11:58AM (#1124838)

You mean like http://fairsoftware.net ;-)

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