u/More-Actuator-1729

I am looking to partner with mid-career devs, that want to build products for the Indian / global markets.

As an operational co-founder I bring in the initial seed capital via the company formation, the physical infrastructure (Mumbai only), the tech infra (on-prim servers, bandwidth and can invest more), strong business & commercial acumen ( pricing, ops, accounting, legal & statutory compliances), prior experiences as a co-founder in 2 separate ventures (1 shut down, I have moved to a consultative role in the other), current experience as a solopreneur since 2018 and 2 concurrent investments (own 51% in one and 20% in the other) in non-tech ventures (both MSMEs, manufacturing for India & the global export markets).

I have over 19 years of professional experience, across geographies and am comfortable taking on a hands-on sales & operational role - daily ops, accounting / book keeping, revenue & growth and monetization partnerships, across industries.

I can dedicate 3-4 hours a day and more on weekends.  

I am not interested in :

1)      Anything AI at this point in time. AI to me, is a tool, nothing more and I am open to building AI capabilities into a product, but because it’s imperative and useful.  

2)      Anything that is illegal in India. Even if it’s lawful in other countries.

3)      Anything that’s a plain vanilla replica model of an existing product.    

4)      A model that’s heavily / solely reliant on social media or social marketing.

 

As a co-founder, I am

1)          frugal – it’s in my DNA. I’ll rather repurpose old servers for archival over buying a new server with tall claims.

2)          abhorrent of the “freemium” culture – I’ll rather have just 10 paying customers over a 1,000 free users.  

3)          dislike mass-mailing campaigns – it doesn’t work, ever. All those emails go into junk, despite how cunningly well they are written.

4)          reliant on self (I’ll rather we do it ourselves, else it’ll never get done).

5)          Not looking to raise capital or sell to private equity or venture capital.

6)          Hands-on. What I don’t know, I’ll learn.

 

I would love to partner with an experienced dev that has

1)      significant full-stack experience.

2)      is comfortable being an independent contributor.

3)      Is comfortable with dealing with issues of scale.

4)      Can travel to India.

5)      Can operate in a lean environment.

 

Since this is a sweat equity role, I am very comfortable partnering with someone that is currently employed and willing to consider this as a side-gig, until we can afford you onboard full time.  

I’ll prefer someone that’s in India , preferably in Mumbai, but open to someone that can travel to Mumbai, atleast once.

My DMs are open and I am willing to share any information that you may need, within reason.

I am looking to partner with mid-career devs, that want to build products for the Indian / global markets.

As an operational co-founder I bring in the initial seed capital via the company formation, the physical infrastructure (Mumbai only), the tech infra (on-prim servers, bandwidth and can invest more), strong business & commercial acumen ( pricing, ops, accounting, legal & statutory compliances), prior experiences as a co-founder in 2 separate ventures (1 shut down, I have moved to a consultative role in the other), current experience as a solopreneur since 2018 and 2 concurrent investments (own 51% in one and 20% in the other) in non-tech ventures (both MSMEs, manufacturing for India & the global export markets).

I have over 19 years of professional experience, across geographies and am comfortable taking on a hands-on sales & operational role - daily ops, accounting / book keeping, revenue & growth and monetization partnerships, across industries.

I can dedicate 3-4 hours a day and more on weekends.  

I am not interested in :

1)      Anything AI at this point in time. AI to me, is a tool, nothing more and I am open to building AI capabilities into a product, but because it’s imperative and useful.  

2)      Anything that is illegal in India. Even if it’s lawful in other countries.

3)      Anything that’s a plain vanilla replica model of an existing product.    

4)      A model that’s heavily / solely reliant on social media or social marketing.

 

As a co-founder, I am

1)          frugal – it’s in my DNA. I’ll rather repurpose old servers for archival over buying a new server with tall claims.

2)          abhorrent of the “freemium” culture – I’ll rather have just 10 paying customers over a 1,000 free users.  

3)          dislike mass-mailing campaigns – it doesn’t work, ever. All those emails go into junk, despite how cunningly well they are written.

4)          reliant on self (I’ll rather we do it ourselves, else it’ll never get done).

5)          Not looking to raise capital or sell to private equity or venture capital.

6)          Hands-on. What I don’t know, I’ll learn.

 

I would love to partner with an experienced dev that has

1)      significant full-stack experience.

2)      is comfortable being an independent contributor.

3)      Is comfortable with dealing with issues of scale.

4)      Can travel to India.

5)      Can operate in a lean environment.

 

Since this is a sweat equity role, I am very comfortable partnering with someone that is currently employed and willing to consider this as a side-gig, until we can afford you onboard full time.  

I’ll prefer someone that’s in India , preferably in Mumbai, but open to someone that can travel to Mumbai, atleast once.

My DMs are open and I am willing to share any information that you may need, within reason.

 

 

 

 

I am looking to partner with mid-career devs, that want to build apps & sites for urban and rural India.

As a co-founder I bring the initial seed capital via the company formation, the physical infrastructure (Mumbai only), the tech infra (on-prim servers, bandwidth and can invest more), strong business & commercial acumen ( pricing, ops, accounting, legal & statutory compliances), prior experiences as a co-founder in 2 separate ventures (1 shut down, I have moved to a consultative role in the other), current experience as a solopreneur since 2018 and 2 concurrent investments (own 51% in one and 20% in the other) in non-tech ventures (both MSMEs, manufacturing for India).

I have over 19 years of professional experience in the global rat race.

On the operational side, I am comfortable with daily ops, accounting & book keeping, revenue & growth and monetization partnerships, across industries.

I can dedicated 3-4 hours a day and more on weekends, to help get this started.

I am not interested in :

1)      Anything trendy/funky or edgy.

2)      Anything that’s outside the ambit of the law.

3)      Anything that’s a straight copy of something built for advanced markets.  

4)      A model that’s heavily / solely reliant on social media or social marketing.

 

Other co-founders have hated my:

1)      My aversion to bloat or extras – I am very fixated on monetizing right upfront.  

2)      Deep hatred of the freemium culture – It’s better to get paying customers right away and build a quality product that’ll attract more paying customers than offer something free and deal with crap.

3)      Dislike of mass-mailing campaigns (I think it’s a violation of privacy and just adds to global warming), whatsapp alerts, etc.

4)      The reliance on self (I’ll rather we do it ourselves, else it’ll never get done).

5)      Inability to relax – we are business partners first and foremost, the social fitment can happen later.

6)      My annoying focus on ‘fitment’ –  if we need to get paid, we need to ensure the paying customer get’s what s/he wants.

 

But overall, most partnerships have been smooth sailing and everything's worked out.

A DM would be fine and I’ll be glad to spend time over the phone if anyone’s interested.