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Ask HN: How to find a business partner to bootstrap a startup in France

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Hi guys, I have just resigned my role as a Data analyst/Growth hacker at SecretEscapes.com to bootstrap a startup copying a well know UK service in France. This particular company is doing very well in the UK atm and just raised money to expand in the US. Through my mother Job, I have easy access to a sample of the customer segment targeted to test an MVP and verify if there is indeed a potential opportunity in France for that particular service. The idea is then to test and document from the findings if it is really possible to bootstrap a startup with a proven idea and a group of early adopters using "The Step-by-Step Guide for building a great company" from Steve Blank and Bob Dorf and "The Lean Startup" from Eric Ries. I am thus looking for a business partner (not obviously tech) to help me designing the product, sourcing it, testing it and market it. In short I am looking for an entrepreneur that "doesn't mind getting his hands dirty" who is data driven and understand the lean startup movement. Any help would be really appreciated.

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praeconium
Hi I like You approach, would like to volunteer and help as much as I can for You to reach MVP and validate France as a market. I am also big believer in execution over idea hence think its great approach, especially that You already got beta testers.

I work on regular job that is very data driven in a large financial corporation, but I want to learn from startups and see if I am good fit so can work afternoons and nights, located in SE Europe. On daily basis I run and govern portfolio north of ~300MEUR, not that much on global scale, but in my country its a lot.

I am proficient in unix/R/SQL/dbases while got some knowledge on JS/HTML/CSS (node, meteor, jekyll) and Ive also read the books You mentioned. I do social marketing and growth hacking as personal project for couple of friends in hospitality business.

So I may be of help with any sort of data, biz dev/ operations, finance/accounting and social media. Can bootstrap and run a website, but do not expect anything extraordinary as its only for MVP level.

Pressure is normal, and I create value in given time, so some things may not be perfect, but I get things done.

Maybe we could just discuss it for 15min? And go from there.

Let me know mwmsigma@gmail.com