[trevelyan]

You should promote your business more on HN, Luke. I just visited it through your sig and am in your market. Currently pay for two virtual servers at MT. One doesn't get much use except as a backup server and I'm paying considerably more for it than what you charge.

Back on point, I don't mean to claim investors are irrational. I just don't think the reflexive "get-a-cofounder" drumbeat that is amplified here is really useful. If it were that easy and such an important determiner of success, I'd expect more investors to back single-founder projects instead of shying away from them. It would be a no-brainer to try and grow projects with revenue and traction.

But it doesn't happen. Which suggests to me that finding a good cofounder is a difficult enough problem that telling someone to do it is not useful advice. Or no more useful than just telling them to get customers. That is what seems to help me more than anything.

[lsc]

eh, right now I've got more customers than I can handle, (see capital problem above) I'm re-entrenching and focusing on my original (and most profitable) market, the hobbiest crowd, (and developers who know *NIX well enough to handle a low-ram instance) so hopefully that will iron out the capital bottlenecks for me, and get me some more hardware so I can start selling larger domains, too.

But yeah, I agree, finding a good co-founder is very difficult, even before you start hitting the co-founder problems that aren't problems when you have employees.