[EternalFury]

Yep, that is typical. 90% of the time, I am approached by someone who says "We have 90% of that things done and ready to go, we just need you to come on board and make it your own."

The problem is that I cannot make "my own" something I had absolutely no part in, from its inception. I guess there could be some odd situation where someone comes up with something in the exact same manner I would have, but the chances of that are low.

The other typical behavior is business people who believe "the idea" is everything and that the building of "it" is a trivial task that a tech co-founder will want to tackle because they are unable to formulate ideas on their own. [The reality is that ideas are a dime a dozen and execution is 99% of success. And tech co-founder will be as much business-oriented as any entrepreneur must be.]

[SparksZilla]

Okay there have been so many comments in here the echo this and I'm just fascinated by this point. I think somebody should write a "before you look for a technical co-founder, make sure you're not planning on making any of the following amateur mistakes."

Would anybody want to help contribute if I do a post on that?

[jchin]

My company did a pivot last year but before that, we did a survey on this topic.

http://www.launchbit.com/blog/why-you-cant-recruit-a-technic...

I apologize that in migrating our blog to Wordpress, things seem to have gotten a little mangled.

[ArbitraryLimits]

Dude. It's like Open Source. If you've got an itch, scratch it. Write the post and submit to HN, you'll get contributions out the wazoo.

[SparksZilla]

Haha well I just wrote this one today, but touche. I'll get to work.