What if?... we can develop your idea(Y combinator with steroids)

2 points by andresvite 15 years ago | 5 comments

I have an idea of a Y combinator with steroids, I would be happy if im not the only one that can realize it, thats why I share it.

You know, maybe you have a very good idea, with good potential and maybe a business plan. But you know, you need to build it, maybe it need so much speciallization, maybe you dont have cofounders, or you are not a programmer(as I am). I know some freelance people that are specialized in Ruby, AJAX, SQL, etc. Im thinking, why not make a business, so we develop startup ideas, so we can know if idea works(generating traffic, maybe revenue), so then the hacker can go directly with venture capitalist, jumping over angel investing stage. What to ask for?, no money, in fact be your cofounders(40 - 60% stocks). Why not, if you may want to share this amount with a person, why not with a company, full of experts; that can create a much more professional product and clients should be happier. If we can develop several ideas maybe 2 of 10 can generate revenue in short. Thats how we can survive.

What do you think of this idea?

mjdecour 15 years ago |

Maybe a better idea would be to help profile individuals interested in start-ups and connect them with users who will compliment there idea. I think there are many people out there with great ideas and non-technical skills that need to connect with people that have excellent technical skills in coding for instance. I'm sure there are users in the opposite situation, great technical skills, but lacks the ideas and business skills to truly build a company. If you had some sort of hub or central place for people to offer there ideas and contribution safely, and the hub would then help connect them with their compliment(s) co-founder. Like a co-founder dating site, but with actual people in center helping making connections with one another, not a computer.

zachallaun 15 years ago |

I'm afraid that I do not see this working in the way that you envision. It is hardly scalable is a "business". A startup is a full time commitment, and a successful one plays out over a number of years, not months (like Y Combinator). You can hardly expect someone to co-found with you if you expect to split your time over some large number of startups. Your network of "freelance people" would have to be massive and trustworthy.

There also exists an underlying issue in matching co-founder with co-founder: Founder relationships based upon personal connection are much more likely to succeed than those that aren't. Your process would fall into the latter category.

andresvite 15 years ago | |

zach: the idea is, just to say something, start with an idea and end in the venture capital stage. If we can demostrate (traffic or increasing revenues), we should raise venture capital. Formalizing the startup, maybe the founder can be the CEO, maybe we put another expert MBA. So The idea is to buy only good ideas. Not need to be years to make a succesful startup, if we develop several ideas at time with a good number of experts, time goes down and risk too.

ammarkalim 15 years ago |

Hit me up, i have something going on over here, which i think you might be interested in. My email is 'hackernews id here'@gmail.com

ammarkalim 15 years ago | |

ammar.kalim@gmail.com