Where can I find a startup team?

Question

Startups

The story is as old as the world. I have a billion dollar idea. There is a detailed idea about the product: target audience, target content, business model, development directions for months and years, nearest competitors and what to do with them.
There is no command. All startup farms that I have found and are still alive, work only with established teams.
In short, where and how to assemble a team of interested developers for a person who does not belong to IT parties and does not have acquaintances among programmers of the required profile?

I foresee answers like: “Doing startups is already a sign of bad taste” and “Uh, my friend, you are too late. The startup boom is long gone.” OK.

Answer 1

Well, what's the idea again. Search here. But we need to be interested.

Answer 2

>No command. All startup farms that I have found and are still alive, work only with established teams.
Quite right! Because an ephemeral "idea" in itself is not yet a real "project" for which someone will give money! And the presence of a team working on the project is, as it were, the minimum “key to success”. That is, a guarantee that the idea will not remain a bare idea, but, nevertheless, will find its embodiment. You have, or rather, planned, some "project". Here, let's call it the "Project" ! Correct terminology is important for the correct formulation of problems!
And yet, I’ll tell you a thing that may surprise you: If you look at it as a “project” from the point of view of implementing an “idea”, then it turns out that there is NO DIFFERENCE what kind of project it is: the idea of ​​​​implementing another startup or the idea of ​​​​opening a grocery shop. In any case,
you will have to go through certain stages in the implementation. In this case, now you have an important step to "find a team". > In short, where and how to assemble a team of interested developers for a person who does not belong to IT parties and does not have acquaintances among programmers of the required profile? But let's dwell on this point in more detail ... You need to find those who are interested in participating in it ... ^{[sorry, what?!?!]} ?!?! Let's be clear first

So, the interest and participation of the Project Participants can be different:
* Co-founder - a person who, together with you, invests His Time and Money in the project. And he takes all the risks, on a par with you! You yourself understand that for a participant – Co-founder, this is a “share in the business” + participation in management decisions, nothing else! This is how you should initially conduct a search conversation. The choice of the “Co-founder” is just a fox, what a responsible business! And if you have at least some mutual misunderstandings with the “Co-Founder”, then I immediately warn you: your project will shatter to pieces as soon as it starts to “take off”. Well, like, I warned you! ;)
* Project Architect- a person who has some experience and skills to build the "architecture" of the project from scratch. Architects are people who are able to “launch” business processes, people who are able to see “pitfalls”. Those who know how to do from a practical point of view what is called "implementation". These are those who are able to take responsibility for a certain “front of work”. For them, participation in the project is primarily a “professional” interest, an opportunity to “raise their own bar”. BUT (!NB!) unlike the participant - "Co-founder", the participant-"Architect" in the main project is, though Expensive, but still, EMPLOYEE. Yes, you can "lure" a professional with "prospects", a good professional if he feels that “there is something interesting and promising for him in the project”, of course he will “be lured.” However, you understand, and the professional understands perfectly well that “he gets 20-30 tr from you. per month, and in an established office he could easily receive at least 100-120 tr, and ALL that keeps him going is INTEREST and PERSPECTIVE. So, do not deprive the "professional" of this perspective! Therefore, keep the conversations “sorry, the project has not taken off yet, there is no money this month” immediately leave it to yourself! If you don’t want to “fail in a responsible direction”, it’s better to take off your last shirt, but find the money! (otherwise, it was immediately necessary to initially have a conversation with him not as with an “architect”, but as with a “founder”). the project has not taken off yet, there is no money this month” keep it with you right away! If you don’t want to “fail in a responsible direction”, it’s better to take off your last shirt, but find the money! (otherwise, it was immediately necessary to initially have a conversation with him not as with an “architect”, but as with a “founder”). the project has not taken off yet, there is no money this month” keep it with you right away! If you don’t want to “fail in a responsible direction”, it’s better to take off your last shirt, but find the money! (otherwise, it was immediately necessary to initially have a conversation with him not as with an “architect”, but as with a “founder”).
* Working hands - The one who takes care of the whole routine. The choice is not as critical as for an “architect”, but if among the “Working Hands” there is a large “staff turnover”, you definitely won’t see stars from the sky! And this is the person you hire. By the way, an important point: If the “Architect” is a person with experience, then a student after graduation will also be drawn to the “Working Hands”. Although usually the “Workers Rukit” participant is chosen in terms of professional suitability for this project by the “Architect” (you still don’t understand shit in the intricacies of the matter), however, you personally (or the participant “ co-founder").
* Single Performer- For one-time jobs. Actually, for the Performer of one-time work, you are a deep “purple” startup, you are there or whoever, he has a million like you. Whether you have money or not, and even more so your "Napoleonic plans" for a one-time performer are even more "ultraviolet". Accordingly, leave all the lyrics and more specifics with the “One-Time Artist”, because you all choose “at market prices” and only the recommendations of friends you have here a “navigation compass”.
* Sponsor- In fact, the "Sponsor" is needed for a project in real take-off, when you really need a lot of money. But ... "at this stage" - FUCK YOU!!! Until your “idea” has grown to a more or less tangible “project”, no one will give you a penny, sad but true! Those. Now no one will act as a Sponsor for your project, of course, if this Sponsor is for you PERSONALLY, neither dad, nor mother, uncle, aunt, brother or matchmaker.
Well, here, with the concepts of “what is a participant” and “what such participation" have been decided? Now you more or less understand how and with whom to talk about the "startup team"?

Answer 3

And I'll pour out a bucket of tar, perhaps.
With such a statement of the question:
> In short, where and how to assemble a team of interested developers for a person who does not belong to IT parties and does not have acquaintances among programmers of the required profile?
Won't take off.
Verified by many people already. It won't take off at all. You need to have something other than an idea. This is either money, or experience in a particular field, or a team.
Moreover, if you have not encountered IT, then you will not take off with both hired employees and contractors. Hang noodles / throw / squander all the money. It has also been tested many times by different people. A team of enthusiasts is the least risky way, you will just waste your time and scatter. The bonus here is the acquisition of healthy cynicism.
Put your idea aside and start by acquiring specialized experience.

Answer 4

There was a counter question here not so long ago - habrahabr.ru/qa/24957/
Maybe you will get along -) Good luck!

Answer 5

What kind of people are needed on the team? I'm not a programmer, but maybe I can help: web, management, advertising. What is the idea of ​​a startup? (possible in PM)

Answer 6

I’m just doing my modest service that will help assemble a team for a startup - DevSearch.ru

Answer 7

> In short, where and how to assemble a team of interested developers for a person who does not belong to IT parties and does not have acquaintances among programmers of the required profile?
Those. The only problem is to choose the right specialists? Do you need a big team?
I would start by building a simple prototype. You can hire a freelancer: you just need to see that he has a sufficient number of reviews for a decent period of time. Although this is not a guarantee ... You may not be lucky, I say right away. While I found a decent python remoter, I changed two, only the third turned out to be sane.

Answer 8

Come on, freelancing and all kinds of hh are full of free startups and teams, you just have to place an offer with a suitable amount. In particular, I have been manufacturing startups for more than a year, and I don’t see anything “bad” in this, and, fortunately, the boom has not passed. The only problem is that almost no one survives longer than the end of the advertising campaign, despite ambitious plans and the order of fault-tolerant and distributed architectures for “high loads”. But I believe that you will succeed. Tell an idea.

Answer 9

There is a working project with 50 thousand users in the database , useful and, most importantly, in-demand online services, the site was transferred to a new CMS - Calipso Node.js, launched, tested, but not completed (we didn’t agree with the developer in character - oh, it’s not easy to find a really partner- developer).
There is money for a salary (what the portal brings), I am ready to take a share of the developer (s), taking into account the future team, there are Investors interested (but I can’t go to them with the old design).
I’m in Moscow, everything is difficult with remote workers, I’m not tied to a place, I’m ready to go to another country with a developer (improve the project as soon as possible).

Answer 10

www.startupfellows.ru

Answer 11

www.teamfinding.ru https://vk.com/teamfinding_ru

Answer 12

here it is about finding a startup for an investor, but it is also suitable for finding a team. Everything depends on values, I found a good team - a successful startup is guaranteed.

Answer 13

Similar challenge! We need a team of coders. Fintech project. I have the necessary competencies, more than 20 years in finance, even failed in the 90s on a DBMS, but today the technologies are not at all the same, and studying materiel from scratch is not an option. If anyone is interested, write in a personal or to [email protected], maybe we will find each other.

Answer 14

I wrote a long article here on how to look for a partner developer in your project, it may be useful to those who stumble upon this question https://vc.ru/life/300488-kak-nayti-tech-kofaunder...

Answer 15

Now they are doing such a service for IT dating https://app.xeomate.com/
There you can find like-minded people for a startup, just dating to broaden your horizons and of course an investor)