a_simm

Hi,

I'm 55 and am finished with a startup I co-founded because the hard work is done, and we're not headed for geometric growth.

I don't have a compelling new idea; have ample tech skills, but want to focus on operations, communication and marketing; am financially independent but won't invest money.

I've no network in the startup area and been a successful university teacher and quantitative researcher.

Ideally, I would find a small team with a vision and a reasonable chance of success. More importantly, they should be committed, competent and non-jerks,

I know lot's of people have ideas; what would you do in my place in terms of finding those with the listed qualities who'd be interested in me?

Thanks in advance.

Edit: Thanks for every reply, I'll start reaching out to individuals soon; if you mentioned mentoring or accelerators, some specific examples would be helpful to me.

I found a set of 6 windows recovery cds in my mother's effects that I made on Jan 6, 2008 on a Compaq mini tower. The original computer is long gone.

So I bought another mini tower of the same vintage, trying to recover, and received a message like "these disks were not made on this machine"

Compaq support was no help and MS support has an open ticket since Nov 2021.

I've looked at the disks on another machine and its unclear what's going on. No info on the format, structure, etc appears in my web searches.

Does anyone know how to get to data off them and or someone or some place who does?

Thanks!