Successful Founders Are Insane

I keep this statement taped to the wall in my startup office. It says

"Most successful founders tend to work on ideas that few besides them realize are good. Which is not that far from a description of insanity, till you reach the point where you see results.  Paul Graham"

It's funny how true this is. It explains exactly who I am. Mostly I'm insane. If you went through my startup closest you would find quite a few of these types of ideas of mine. To me the vision is never completely clear, yet it's always more clear to me than anyone else.

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The art of taking your idea and getting others to believe in it enough to join you in your insanity quest is like painting the picture for each person individually and the painting never comes out as an exact duplicate. It's leaving my brain at eleven million milliseconds and entering into the others at a much slower rate. They are processing the idea all the while I'm still adding more paint. Sometimes when I tell someone about Passdown, it strikes me and other pieces to the paintings puzzle is revealed. The person I told doesn't know that. Only I do. Shhh

This is where you get the revelers who express joy in your idea, and the scoffers who just cannot grasp the vision. It's a hard place for us treps to be. At least for me it is. In my last post I had asked the startup Gods to send me developers and for the Broncos to win. In seconds the Bronco's won! But I didn't put much hope into finding developers as they are in high demand. They do not need to work for free, on someones insanity vision. Okay there are no startup Gods, but it's a nice thing to believe in. Exactly twenty four hours later I received my second request answered. Woah! maybe they're really are startup Gods?

A very kind developer stated "This is a good idea" and I want to know more about it. He also offered his extensive developing background. Whoa, whoa, whoa. You see I take delight in the person who see's something in the idea of Passdown. The people who do this, fit into the quote above. They see, and realize something is good. And they want to be apart of it.

Sometimes Things That Do Not Make Sense Are The Best.

Honestly I've seen the vision of Passdown about one hundred years into the future. I've seen humanity using it, talking about it, sharing it, in the future. I've pictured many of the problems Passdown will have to overcome. I've invented code algorithms in my head even though I do not code. I've seen what it will do for humanity in it's most precious form. I've overlooked from the balcony at the ones who will get greedy. Yeah, I'm still in the magical aura of Passdown. Yeah, it's still just an idea. But it growing. It's taking roads where schoffers do not walk. It's riding right up the path to the user soul. And the users will say if it's a go. No one else has any say in it, not even my team. 

Yep, it's the road of uncertainty, lined with users. For now they tell us to build, so we will do that.

Finding Your Workforce On WhisperApp ; - )

It's been awhile since I blogged about one of my most favorite apps, Whisper. Of course one of my post about Whisper has been number one on my top ten most popular post on this blog. Not picked by me, but by how many readers hit on that one. There is virtually no chance that anyone of my other post will ever be able to beat it, except my current rising star on my blog, my daughter Shayla. She got on the top ten in days, and no one has done that, except Whisper. 

When I had first discovered Whisper I was immediately addicted to it. As the months went by and life hit some hardships for me, I stopped Whispering. Then every once in a while I get on it, and the most amazing things happen. I meet great people. Funny people. Good people. 

Just this week alone I have met two perfect candidates to hire for my startup Passdown. Yep, I think I could hire my entire workforce from Whisper App. I can't tell you how many developers I've met on Whisper, and of course you can find Venture Capitalist and Angel investors too if you so seek. As an employer I'm not interested in posting an ad in Craigslist or some other form and getting ninety applicants to read though. I kind of like, just bumping into people randomly. Discovering who they are in real life. 

As earlier this week Shayla and I were at the mall and I found a potential great sales woman, who surely could sell Passdown. I saw her in action and I hope she will be a future employee.

Now you may wonder how I find people to hire on WhisperApp, if it's anonymous. I talk to them in the chat area. It's so funny cause often times the chat room conversations are not about seeking employment. Shhh, can't tell you what they are about. I find that people are actually pretty damn honest, since it is anonymous, unless you choose to share more. 

If you take away all the nerves a person would feel when interviewing for a job, well, than you get the real person. Of course I did find a few people I hired from Whisper for my last startup, and well, they didn't work out. I had to fire them. Good practice for me. They both were good people, but not good workers. 

I will have to have some other checks in place to hire these future employees, one of them will be to be interviewed by my co-founder Wael. As a startup builder, I like to be creative and do things the non traditional way. I do not want to hire the traditional way, that's boring. There are great potential workers all around us, we just have to stumble upon them in ways neither side expected. 

Enjoy your Whispering and keep your mind open for the unexpected!