I have been interested in starting a company for a while now, but I am having trouble finding a qualified partner with business and/or marketing skills. I’ve gone to a few networking events, but I find that 90% of the people there are geeks like me, web designers or get-rich-quick/MLM types. How did you find your partner (or vice-versa)?
I have worked with a project for the past several years that, by necessity not choice, required a web application framework written in C (it's an embedded platform) and I can tell you it is pure hell. The most mundane and simple tasks, often trivial one-liners in scripting languages, require many lines of error-prone C code even with a fairly rich set of libraries available. Working in this environment, you'll quickly realize why the rest of the world doesn't do it this way. Thankfully, this project is finally moving away from this architecture and I couldn't be happier about it.