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Looking for CoFounder / 2cents?
My name Will. I am 23. I live in LA. Going to school for marketing but also thinking about dropping out to join a startup or CREATE a startup. Im in the process of gathering advice. Im an aspiring entrepreneur! Not the "idea man". I dont have a get rich quick idea. Looking for someone who is willing to hear out my ideas and work with someone who believes in them or meet someone to tell me im a f*ing idiot. Anything works.
So, read below to check out projects I've worked on in the past or are currently working on now.
I am constantly thinking of ways to better the world and make certain things in life less complicated or constructive for the mass.
Ive been passionately trying to start a business since I was 18...and failed or pivoted many times. This is the order in which they have originated from.
I am still working on a few of them! Looking to hash them out more with other Entrepreneurs that believe in my vision or engineers that would like to assist in wire framing or designing beta sites/apps.
1st idea - MealDealz: Dining deals. Coupons and discounts for all the popular restaurants and fast food places. Now there are many alike.
2nd idea - MiServices: Directed toward younger individuals trying to make money on the side walking dogs or putting up christmas lights, etc but would like to be accredited through ratings. Something better than Craigslist but you're not licensed so you can't technically be on Angies list or Yelp.
3rd idea - Readr: Discover and share books you love and start a book club online. Have authors start a book club for their new releases, or fans start one. Now alike Goodreads.
4th idea - Betsy: make bets online and through our application with others on any topic from the Tech world, Entertainment, Sports, Politics, etc. Earn points, humblebrag and use the points to get cool rewards.
5th idea - standUP: organize all the online campaigns into one place. Enlighten people on common issues and how to take action through either petitions to congress, sharing the message or supporting the cause, etc. Show all the trending topics currently going on: Occupy Wall Street, GunControl, Internet Control, Oil Spill, Education, War on Drugs, etc. Then the main objective would be to help people establish their standpoint on the issue by showing all the different points of views and how they could easily take action all in one simple organized application. The app would be like the One campaign app.
Plus many other ideas! But these are the ones that I've either already worked on or are currently working on.
I am fascinated with the concept of building businesses, the surprises with successful marketing, and the power of social media and how much impact it has on the world.
I can assist in creating a business model. Assist in product design. Make Logo. Talk to potential customers, test design hypotheses. Figure out sales and marketing strategy, find beta users, warm up early adopters, performance tracking, online profiles, help create a blog. Research. Checking up on competitors and how they do business. Or help collectively create a meaningful mission statement explaining why we give this service/product.
Any advice works. Contact me:
wmandrell.iv@gmail.com
https://twitter.com/WLMiv
http://www.cofounderslab.com/will-mandrell
- codenesium 14y agoWhy do you need a co-founder? I'm assuming you're looking for a technical person based on your summary. You should learn to code. It's not nearly as hard as people think and it gives you one of the two skills a technical person is looking for in a partner. The other skill is the ability to raise money. Just my 2 cents.
- wmandrell 14y agoIm thinking about taking this class, thoughts? http://generalassemb.ly/education/85/front-end-web-development?where=los-angeles http://generalassemb.ly/education/85/front-end-web-developme...
- codenesium 14y agoThe overview is what you should be learning but 3k is way way too much. Every topic they are covering can be found on google or a decent book from Amazon. I suggest buying a cheap hostmonster account and learning some PHP. This tutorial is pretty good http://devzone.zend.com/6/php-101-php-for-the-absolute-beginner/ http://devzone.zend.com/6/php-101-php-for-the-absolute-begin... Don't just focus on front end skills and think you don't have to learn how it works on the backend because a frontend is just something to look at it if doesn't have the server side component.
- orangethirty 14y ago#1 Overdone. #2 Legal issues. Stick to craigslist. #3 This can easily be replaced by a blog. How would it make money? Sales of books? #4 Legal issues. #5 Been done. Small niche. Not so much a business, but a charity. I think you are getting ahead of yourself because you lack a very basic understanding about businesses. Business that are profitable sell things people want. Not things people need. Look around. Talk to people. What do they want? But don't listen to their voice. Listen to their money. What are they paying for? How can you improve upon that product? Then you can start marketing it (without building it). If you get enough interest (say 100 people with money on their hands) then build an MVP. But you dont need a co founder for any of this.