Well said, "
any competent engineer can calculate the value of 10% of ZERO...
Cash is king.
- Ben
Kristina Anderson wrote:
Great article. Thanks!
As far as equity goes, I have "equity" in a project which I did last
winter. Most of the time these people pay a few grand in cash, which
for the hours worked ends up being like $10 an hour or less,
and "equity", and then just expect the thing to sell itself after you
build it. If they don't have the cash to pay you to build it, you KNOW
they don't have the cash to market it and make it profitable. I think
any competent engineer can calculate the value of 10% of ZERO...
NEVER AGAIN. My landlord, and the grocery store, don't accept a
promise of "equity" as payment. I learned the hard way not to go this
route. Maybe 1 out of 1,000 projects might be worth doing on that
basis....maybe.
-- Kristina
I recommend this article/post:
http://codeclimber.blogspot.com/2008/04/all-i-need-is-programmer.html
As a member of several NYC networking groups, I can promise you that
ideas (both good and bad) are a dime a dozen, it's all on the
execution.
Maybe you're not looking for freebies, but if you are I recommend
against it. You might have more luck finding a developer that will
lower their wages in exchange for equity, or if you're absolutely
desperate, outsource the work developing a prototype, sell your idea
to investors, and then hire programmers to execute.
Hope that helps,
- Brian D.
On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 9:42 PM, RDP <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Sounds great!!
Show me the money!
Have a nice day!
----- Original Message -----
From: New Media Concept
To: jobs@lists.nyphp.org
Sent: Tuesday, August 19, 2008 9:24 PM
Subject: [nyphp-jobs] Got a Great Big Idea - Need a
Developer/Partner toMake
it Happen
I've got a pretty good idea that's been brewing in my head for
quite a
while. It's ambitious, audacious, and certainly a challenge, but at
the same
time, it's so audacious that it deserves nothing less than a real
try.
I used to work in the media industry and came to the painful
realization
that it's probably the only industry that does an incredibly poor
job of
bringing in new people and new ideas. At the same time the media
industry
hasn't changed much even as technology has given it the potential
to solve
many of these issues. The end result is more misses than hits, and
promising
original talent being burned out as they tire out from trying to
get their
lucky break. I think it's time to change that.
I've spoken to several tech and marketing execs who all agree that
this is
an idea that is entirely feasible and self sustainable, and
therefore worth
trying at the very least. I've spoken with others in the industry,
including
other artists and creatives, who all tell me that they and everyone
they
know would jump at the chance to partake in that concept because
something
like this has been sorely lacking in the industry for nearly it's
entire
history. So in the end, it could be at the very least a self
sustainable and
unique niche site, or be even more, and disrupt and shift the entire
industry.
It's not a concept that can be deployed overnight, but whose
features can be
logically implemented over time to create an ever more full featured
product. The first iteration of the concept would be simple and
could be up
and running fairly fast(in fact a simple prototype using open source
resources was built and successfully tested). However I need
someone who
will be able to take it beyond that, and keep it going as new
pieces of the
puzzle are being implemented and thought up.
I'm going to need a good LAMP developer who knows how to work with
UGC and a
CMS, and wants to be part of building an idea that might carry them
for the
long haul. I'm really looking for my long term technical
team/partner(s) to
really make this idea and vision happen.
So if you went through the trouble of reading all that and don't
think I'm a
nut for daring to think big, shoot me an email with your
qualifications and
I'll let you know more of the details.
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