Interesting article and I wanted to comment on the bit on outsourcing. Our project needed an extra hand and that's where we turned to oDesk and some good old word of mouth. Very quickly we found some coders but we stayed only with one group. The relationship moved from outsourcing to co-founderness with Tomas after a few months. He's Slovakian and studies in Poland and needed a way to get some income during his last year at university.

We've been working together for more than a year, and he's used this project to write his thesis and make some money. It raises an interesting point, as finding founders is sometime a question of good luck and great people. Regardless of where you look, its all a question of feeling, mutual trust and being open minded.