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The ideas are important, but remember the idea guy also was to run the company. That's a ton of work, too.

In any event, while I appreciate the offer, I'm now too old and domesticated to work on it. I guess my comment should have said I'd have loved to met someone like that in my early 20s, when I had more free time and my brain worked better :).

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> but remember the idea guy also was to run the company

Company of 2 where neither receives a salary.

> That's a ton of work, too.

In this case, I really, really don't think so.

Well, in an honest sense, that's kind of what YC's matching program does. I'm working for a company I found on there right now. It's a much different experience from job searching but it's full of people with ideas. Half or more of them are complete nonsense but any decent engineer should be able to sift the gold from the dross.

Do you have some tips for getting started on there? I poked on a few months ago, but wasn't able to make enough sense of it to get started. I think I just didn't find the right entry points?

Book meetings with people who seem interesting, don't judge a book by its cover. Fill out your profile in a pretty detailed way, you'll get better matches if you specify what you're looking for. If you're a technical person, you're going to have your choice, I gather many of the people on there are not technical.

> The ideas are important, but remember the idea guy also was to run the company. That's a ton of work, too.

Someone who thinks of themselves as “an idea guy” and that that is worth 50% is delusional to a level I wouldn’t trust them to run the company.

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