| Non-Tech Founder here . . . I'm an Ivy MBA (yippee), and I'm working with a Natural Language Processing PhD and another guy who will be starting his PhD in NLP in September. However, neither can serve as a full-time Co-Founder . . . gotta find that person. The business plan (yeah, the MBA actually wrote a whole one) has been vetted by some iconic folks in the industry, and proof-of-concept should be done by the end of the summer thanks to the brilliant NLP folks and some amazing designers. So what are we doing? Basically, the hypothesis is that there is a fundamental misalignment between the way that people intuitively think about engaging with information online and the tools we use to engage with information online . . . we think in terms of our interests, yet the existing tools/services are structured by function. We're going to realign that. Looking for someone based in NYC who can lead the technology vision beyond the PoC . . . they should have a passion for social media, experience scaling a consumer-focused web service (ideally as a team leader), and love the idea of playing with a ton of cleanly segmented and highly granular data on interests. Email is in my profile . . . Cheers! |