[svlug] looking for people working on sweat equity/startup ideas...

[Alvin Oga]

On Tue, Mar 28, 2006 at 11:29:19AM -0800, Tin Le wrote:
> 
> What are your interests?  Hardware?  Software?  Embedded?  Database? 
> System?  Video?  Media? Storage?  Network?  etc... etc... you get the 
> idea.

all of that is for me ... and am currently doing .. though much
less on database stuff ( but db is needed on the next big project 
for yet another "registrar" system )

	- hw-wise, i'm looking for gigE state machine expert to build 
	a 24-32 port gigE kvm switch ( easy to design but hard/expensive to build )

add sales/marketing/pr to the list of "interests" or required talents
if things are going to work and is sustainable ideas

> Building a good team take a lot of work.  You have to find the right 
> people that fits in, personality, technically....  Simply throwing bodies 
> at a problem could make it worse, much worse.

exactly

my rule of thumb... seriously interested people will be "doing it" 
and as one idea fades, there will be other new/better ideas will come
rolling around
( gotta keep moving with the tidal wave of new ideas )

> With that said, I am looking at building a team, just waiting for go 
> signal...  Lots of web (XML, XSLT, CSS, HTML, graphics), multimedia, 
> database.  I'll need at least one good sysadmin, network person.
 
easy to find "good sysadmin"... and "good network" etc,etc

very hard to find "experts" that will work on startup ideas

> I am curious as to where is a good place to go to _look_ for talents.
 
i've been doing this for 10-20yr depending on how one counts 
and will keep doing "startups" and/or aka consulting in my small world

i drag folks in "here" irregularly, yelling and screaming, when i need
some help to meet some customer deadlines .. time is 95% of the problem
and not the talent issues ...

more importantly... cut pieces of the pie before there is single
dollar in the pie

c ya
alvin