Where to find a normal designer for a startup?

Question

User interface

We need a normal adequate designer with the availability of time to work with a team of startups, for 5% in the authorized capital. In terms of attracting investments in 2016 in the amount of $1 million.

Answer 1

In terms of attracting investments in 2016 in the amount of $1 million.

Take a loan and pay for the work of a designer with upwork.

Answer 2

Attracting a million (haha) is in the plan, but you need to work now. Well, the plans are also to die in a year or two, like 99% of all startups. Who would agree to this? That's right, the one who is not taken under normal conditions. And why? Because he's not "normal". Good luck, cho.

Answer 3

So you all sit and think that the designer is not needed in the project? Or launch the project as it is, and then maybe with luck an investor will come running, clients will come running and trample everything, well, or not trample at all. Such an approach to business and some kind of project is fundamentally wrong, because every client loves with his eyes, and how convenient it is to use, and even more so if it helps to get some kind of profit. Do you all think why MacOS is popular? Because she's Apple? I am sure that you are all 90% wrong, there are a lot of inconsistencies and problems in it, but everyone buys it because Steve Jobs used the opposite approach and did not put in the first place to do something profitable, but wanted to do something really necessary. And therefore, you must first think about how a person will work and how it is convenient for him to use it, and then implement it. Most startups fail because of customer dissatisfaction. And in any successful service, the work of a UI specialist is simply grandiose and does not come down to 20-30 sketches and PSD sources, even a small project implies the presence of 3-5 options for 1 page, and in 3-5 color variations, and it cannot be estimated in monetary terms , especially at the startup stage, when there is no finance in principle.

Answer 4

investment does not mean "on hand"

Answer 5

As long as theoretical percentages of possible profits are offered, few normal designers will agree. I have been offered such work for a percentage many times, but none of these startups could clearly answer my questions about how much this percentage will be (in any business there are planned figures and this is not a problem), what numbers will be in a month after the start, a year later. How everything will be formalized legally, etc. etc.
For some reason, they wrote to me that “if you are in doubt, then we will find another” and even took offense at distrust, which surprised me a little)))
Why can’t any of you say anything other than “We promise N% of *name of the source of money*”? )) Because they themselves do not know anything, they are looking for someone who will believe. Until this changes, “startups” will not be able to find “normal andappropriate designer. Take your friend as a designer, whom you have known personally for a long time - this is the way out in your case of offering theoretical percentages.
At the same time, startups with which I really successfully worked paid for the design as usual. Where did they find the funds, I wonder?)))

Answer 6

Leave a search request on these sites spark.ru, www.startupfellows.ru. And then they will find you.