Good, randomly found, motivated marketing people seem hard to find. (or maybe I just don't know where to look)

i.e. let's say you've developed a little site. it launched with a little buzz but then tapered off. you've added a bunch of features and a lot of the site/code infrastructure is in place to take it to the next level, but you've done very little marketing / etc.

What to do next in this case? I have a site like that which is kind of rotting on the vine... a few k in revenue each month gradually sloping downward without anymore work on it from my part.

Biggest problem: managing people part-time can be a huge pain.

That's just the sort of thing I was thinking about. Would you be interested in selling it, bringing in new partners, or something like that? I'm not saying I'm interested myself (I shouldn't be; plenty of other stuff I am/should be working on) but perhaps someone is. I have been thinking about the value of mildly successful web projects and I have an interest one too.

It's an interesting idea. I've seen a few startups have their teams replaced in an attempt to save the company and I haven't seen it succeed once. Anyone seen this work? What happened to kiko after sale?

Theres certainly some interesting YC companies that have gone missing that I would love to see revived. Jump Chat for example.

Does YC accept companies doing the same idea as a previous YC company?

Whatever happened to the Kiko fellows? Last I heard they had the wackiest idea in the game.

Hah, I hadn't realised it was the same guys, good for them.

There are quite a few semi-retired executives and management consultants who become "turnaround" experts. Usually they associate themselves with private equity firms or semi-formal investment syndicates. But they tend to focus on more established companies. A more startup-oriented version of this would be "Entrepreneurs-in-residence" at VC firms. They claim to be developing ideas, but in reality they have some association with VCs who want to keep them around for whatever reason so they just hang around until they come across an idea and then the VCs invest on the basis that the E-i-R is the "lead managing entrepreneur." But like most women, they tend to be suspicious of anybody that wants to have anything to do with them and tend to go for people/companies who don't even know they exist. It's a sick world that we live in.