Ask HN: How to find technical cofounder who wants to start a small business?

📰 Hacker News · productguy

I have been reading Hacker News for the past couple years... anyway I am currently working as a product manager in my day job and am interested in starting a startup / small business. And let me underline the "small business". Many cofounders are too keen on tackling big billion dollar ideas, but I think there are many low-key ideas that can generate good revenue without even getting VC funding. I am presently making $144,000 salary as a Director of Product Management, but I really feel it is futile to continue serving the corporate masters. There is this void that I feel in going to work every day -- dealing with commutes, bad stress (not good stress), dumb co-workers, and the office politics. And I realized that while the paycheck sounds to be good on paper, the salary after taxes, living expenses, etc - it is really not that much. I really don't have that much real work per se ( so are the other peers -- no one would want to admit) - a lot of it is really busy work ; preparing Power

Published 8 Sept 2011
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