I listed one of my car for sale on craigslist and had someone contact me outside my city. The conversation started off very natural with the "buyer" asking very relevant used car questions. Then he said he is out of town and is willing to send me a deposit to hold the car. He said: "Before I send you a deposit, please send me a selfie of you, with your drivers license with a piece of paper with...
In general: How does engineers find good non-technical co-founders for their ventures?In my specific case: I'm a software engineer based in SF who has been working on a machine learning trading algorithm to trade securities(Average 18% annual returns with 0.9 sharpe ratio over the last 15 years).I've been testing and trading with my own money based on the algorithm for almost a year now and...
TLDR: I had 2.5 years of failed startup experience in Vancouver. Recently my cofounder found a job, so now I'm thinking about moving to the valley to join a startup with people I like. Any tips on how I should plan the move? I don't have much savings but I mined some bitcoins, so is there any place that accepts rent with bitcoins?Long version: It's been almost 2.5 years since I graduated from...
We my co-founder and I have built a product for storefront SME. Both of us are engineering type and not very good going door to door selling. We tried but haven't been able to convince any to buy from us. We know this product can sell because our competitor (in a different geographical area) is able to sell plenty, so it's not that we are building something no one wants. So my question is how...
We started doing some consulting recently and a new "potential" client sent us an NDA to sign before telling us what he wants us to build. I've read that it's not good for consultants to sign NDAs and a lot of them don't. Do you sign NDAs?
