the general advice or best experience seem to be to team up with people that you have worked together with for a few years.
but as someone who effectively has been working alone as a freelancer for most of my adult life i simply don't have any coworkers or work friends.
and don't get me started on networking. i wasted lots of time at so called networking events, to the point that when i moved to a smaller city the lack of events felt like a relief.
therefore my only chance to find partners has been random connections.
so far the results were not good. the biggest obstacle being lack of funds.
i can't afford to work for equity only if i join someone else, and i can't afford to pay someone if they were to join me.
But you can afford to work for equity if itβs your own project? Mayhaps your problem is that you only see your project as valuable and are subconsciously dismissing other potential projects that could kickstart your own
most startups fail. the likelyhood that the earned equity will be enough to kickstart my own project years later is to small to be worth the risk.
if i join someone for equity, then it has to be a project that i am actually interested in enough that i'd start it on my own if i had the opportunity.
so it's not my project vs your project but it is my interests vs your interests. if our interests align, i'll join you, even for equity only.
however at the end of the day i still have to put food on the table, so if you are looking for 100% commitment, i simply can't afford that.
i was part of a startup based on that premise. it failed because noone could put in enough time, and the founder rejected the idea to finance ourselves with consulting work believing that if we did that we'd never get to work on the startup because we'd be busy building up a consulting firm.
i don't believe that's true, because somehow i manage to make a living from consulting and still have time to work on my project.
I had a cofounder who held this same position. I offered to do all the work and funnel it into the company and even that was a bad idea because then no one technical could work on the project... even though we were talkig about funding an offshore dev team. Sometimes idiots gone be idiots
but as someone who effectively has been working alone as a freelancer for most of my adult life i simply don't have any coworkers or work friends.
and don't get me started on networking. i wasted lots of time at so called networking events, to the point that when i moved to a smaller city the lack of events felt like a relief.
therefore my only chance to find partners has been random connections.
so far the results were not good. the biggest obstacle being lack of funds.
i can't afford to work for equity only if i join someone else, and i can't afford to pay someone if they were to join me.
no choice but to keep trying