1/ The question I'm struggling with the most for my @ycombinator app is, "why are you a solo founder?"
The honest answer is timing.
I won't and don't want to be one, but the opportunity came up fast, and not making a horrible very long-term mistake means recruitment isn't.
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5/ Alternatively, I'm not sure, "hey, let's do a trial period. I'll pay you to help me build this now, and if it works well, I'll make you a cofounder" has good selection pressures. As the recruited person, I'd feel like I'm in a precarious position that's ripe for exploitation.
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6/ More than that, there's a lot of precarity going around now. Say I know a great Google engineer that I'd ask to be a cofounder — now seems like precisely the moment where they'd say, "no thank you," even if they would have said, "YES PLEASE!" six months ago.
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7/ If I don't get into YC, I know the solo issue is going to be what sinks me. Teams are critical, and formation/recruitment may be much more difficult now than it usually is. So I'd like to hear strategies people know of, especially if they used them in "war time" before.
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P.S. To the people who have reached out to me and those I've reached out to recently, this in no way discounts our ongoing conversations.
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Forgive me for being elenchic, but would you say that necessarily made the professional contract a failure?
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The contract was fine and the client was happy. We haven't worked together since though.
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