the startup AL account: angel.co/intoo-1 ; joinintoo.com
I had a cto/cofounder which "resigned" for health reasons concerning his parents/wife and can hardly find another one.
The sketches on AL are more complicated than my MVP
1) Dennis Crowley supposedly searched for a cofounder for years before meeting Foursquares cofounder but I'm sure there are other examples.
2) I'm learning how to code, found it quite difficult from scratch, but the point is that without a team, my chances of finding an angel/VC to invest are really small even if I code it or pay someone to. Do you guys know any examples of successful startups where the founders were not friends?
Please define "expensive". If it's a consumer app, hacking a wordpress template should only cost about ~$500.00 or hacking the sample projects from Parse.com can cost about ~$500.00-$1,000.
If it's a enterprise play, then you should be able to close $50k-$2mil for a paid project engagement from an enterprise client just by having a good powerpoint deck and an awesome sales pitch.
If neither options works, then you probably need to refine the idea more.
By expensive, I mean several thousands dollars which I can't afford, however I thought of Wordpress and thanks for Parse but as the product is kind of like Pinterest for news and meeting like-minded people, wordpress won't allow me enough personalization.
You guys in SF bay can raise money without being in an incubator and without being live? Thanks a lot anyway
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If you can't attract anyone, probably either your idea sucks, you personally don't add any value, or the scope of your idea is starting too large.
Ask them for feedback.
Code the MVP yourself.
1) if you can't convince someone to work with you to build this how will you convince customers to buy it?
2) if you believe in the idea enough, what's keeping you from learning to code?
2) I'm learning how to code, found it quite difficult from scratch, but the point is that without a team, my chances of finding an angel/VC to invest are really small even if I code it or pay someone to. Do you guys know any examples of successful startups where the founders were not friends?
If it's a enterprise play, then you should be able to close $50k-$2mil for a paid project engagement from an enterprise client just by having a good powerpoint deck and an awesome sales pitch.
If neither options works, then you probably need to refine the idea more.
You guys in SF bay can raise money without being in an incubator and without being live? Thanks a lot anyway