co-founders

[steve]

Hello All,

I found your email address via crunchbase.com. My co-founder and I
recently sold our company, which was an ISP in Ontario, Canada. We'd
like to do something similar again. We're hoping to join up with
another two or three founders, each who have worked together and
founded a successful startup in the past. I figure the group we're
looking to talk with have either, just went through an exit, are in
the midst of an exit or just started another startup.

I'll post more information on who we are, what we've accomplished and
which skills we're seeking below this email. If anyone comes to mine
or if you know of anyone I can ask, please let me know. Also let me
know if there is anyway I can return the favour.

-steve



http://igeejo.com

Currently the team is composed of

Steve Blatchford co-founder

* Co-founder of Internet service provider porchlight.ca
* Directed the company from a basement hobby to $2.3 million
annual sales
* Solid computer hardware, Linux, networking and Bash skills
* Persistent, goal oriented, knack for simplicity
* Married with two dogs
* Enjoys playing ultimate

Jim Karsten co-founder

* 9 years as web developer and programming manager at
porchlight.ca
* Perl, HTML, CSS, javascript, MySQL
* Accounting, payroll, automated financial interfaces
* Interests: hockey, golf, and hanging out with the dogs


Co-founders wanted

We are looking for three like-minded co-founders. Ideally we'd like to
join up with people who have network admin, user interface
development, and marketing skills. In general, we want people with
startup mentality, self-motivated and with a well rounded skill set so
they can jump in and help on whatever is a priority at the time.

Network Administrator

* Linux administration
* Security and maintenance
* Computer hardware knowledge

UI/Web Developer

* HTML, javascript, CSS, Ajax
* Effective design with an eye for simplicity

Marketing

* Marketing: traditional and online
* Social networking and public relations

[steve]

Bah please ignore the comment about crunchbash.com. Shamefully it was a
copy/paste :-/

-steve

[Norman Young]

Hi, Steve.

Congratulations on your sale!

Where are you and Jim based?

Do you have a business idea that you want to develop? Are you
interested in hearing others?

Norm.

[steve]

Hey Norm,

re: location - Currently we live in Waterloo, Ontario.

re: business idea - We have been focusing on finding like-minded
people. We've made a conscious effort to try and stay away from
brainstorming too much on the ideas. Coming up with problems others
need solved seems to be more straight forward (and very tempting) than
the problem of finding like-minded people who have had similar
experiences.

Where abouts are you? What have you worked on in the past?

-steve

[Mic]

Steve

there are some informal groups that get together in Waterloo for this
very purpose (of finding other founders, sharing ideas, etc)

I will contact the organizer and let him know about your post

best

Mic