housewife

So, here is the situation in which my cofounder and I find ourselves… When we decided to apply for YC, we proposed to our programmer (who we had recently selected after exhaustive searching, to create our site, since we are non-techies) to come on board as a cofounder. We wanted him as we knew he would be a great fit for our team…but unfortunately he declined. He loves our idea, and our vision for what we are trying to do, but he’s got a wife, and a kid, and a baby on the way, and he has to put food on the table, and he is in no way prepared to spend 3 months in Cali. With the deadline for YC looming, just a few weeks away, we decided to forego finding someone new, and just applied ourselves. We really thought it would be better than trying to rush and force a team together that may not work… My question is, do you think that that will hurt our chances, not having a tech cofounder, or did we do the right thing by not just grabbing any old person JUST because they’re tech?

For all of you out there who are working on start ups, or have, be they successful or not, how do you get over those humps where you just want to throw in the towel or move on to another project? I am not in this particular slump at the moment, in fact quite the opposite, I am more energized and optimistic than ever, but I have been a few times, and worked through it. What are your personal strategies that help you move through a demoralizing/demotivating period in your pursuit?

This is an open ended, "what makes you tick" question, just to get some interesting pov, not an invitation for negative jackassery.

Hello hackers! My best friend/business partner and I are applying for this session of Y combinator... We have a truly phenomenal start up idea, not trying to sound obnoxious, but it's a goodie ;). The thing is, we are not technical really at all. Our parent company is called "Ambitious Housewives" because that's what we are. We're 30, married, and we have kids (she has a 7 year old, and I have a 6 year old and a 4 month old...) BUT we both have built home based businesses, and we are entrepreneurs! We have been hard at work trying to raise capital, but it is difficult in Calgary, everyone is SO oil and gas focused. We want to get in to YC SO much, where people will TRULY understand our vision... Just wondering, what do you think our chances are of being selected, given that we are not in tech?

Hello hackers! My best friend/business partner and I are applying for this session of Y combinator... We have a truly phenomenal start up idea, not trying to sound obnoxious, but it's a goodie ;). The thing is, we are not technical really at all. Our parent company is called "Ambitious Housewives" because that's what we are. We're 30, married, and we have kids (she has a 7 year old, and I have a 6 year old and a 4 month old...) BUT we both have built home based businesses, and we are entrepreneurs! We have been hard at work trying to raise capital, but it is difficult in Calgary, everyone is SO oil and gas focused. We need something to happen, like Y combinator, where people will TRULY understand our vision... Just wondering, what do you think our chances are of being selected, given that we are not in tech?