Social Media Start-Up Job

4 points by whanft ↗ HN
I'm a long time reader/first time poster. Let me start by saying I have come to admire the intelligent discussion and thought provoking comments and stories that I find from Hacker News.

With that being said, I have a question for you all: Do you know anyone who may be interested in becoming part of a three man social media start up?

We are a stealth start up looking for a Developer in the Social Media space, and require someone with a strong background in data management structures, systems, and languages who is comfortable in creating both a database and algorithms capable of digesting data and spitting it back out while maintaining user security. My partner and I fall on the business side of things (with myself on the marketing end, and my partner on the finance end) and are starting interviews this week.

The project will need to be scalable and on the back end deals with pre-defined variables that will be submitted by users and will need to be indexed in a variety of ways. In addition, on the user side of things, privacy controls will be crucial to our product in their ability to allow users to limit access to specific data.

In terms of a monetization strategy we have an answer to the standing advertiser problem in terms of monetizing a free site in this space. The current founders have extensive experience and in finance and business and strong ties to VC and Investment Bank funding. We are looking to bring on someone for equity in the company. Location is not really an issue as long as the developer would be willing to participate in meetings on line and/or conference calls for status and strategy updates. However, we are currently based out of Charlotte, NC.

If you have any interest or know of someone who does, please leave a comment here, or contact me directly, my email is in my profile! Thanks again to those who read this, and keep up the discussion!

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Blah blah, stealth startup, blah blah, social media, blah blah we've solved the problem of advertising being nearly impossible to monetize, blah blah, equity, we know everyone in the VC industry, blah blah, how about 3% of our awesome trillion dollar cloud of vapor?