jerryji

I'm seeking PR service to generate awareness for my social/shopping startup at under $1000

Any recommendations?

I'm the single founder of a social shopping site (details in my profile). My site is already live for a few months with thousands of users. But I have been rejected by every incubator out there, the feedback I had is always "go get a co-founder". The problem is that finding a co-founder just for the next round of applications is like promising to get married before Thanksgiving. Besides, it'd still be challenging to answer the ubiquitous question of "tell us a touching story of how you and your co-founder met and worked together on something before".

I would truly appreciate your thoughts and advice. BTW, I'm in Singapore but prefer a co-founder with deep US connection.

Hi, my name is Jerry Ji, sole founder of Bizspeaking.com. Bizspeaking is a social network connecting shoppers. In other words, it's like a Twitter for shoppers. I developed the website http://bizspeaking.com/ mostly in my spare time. It's a Python (Pyramid), PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis, Solr stack.

I'm looking for full-time co-founder, preferably someone who complements me with deep US connections. About myself: I've made a self assessment pie at http://dl.dropbox.com/u/6612298/jerryji_self_assessment.png (following Steve Blank's "Hiring – Easy as Pie" http://steveblank.com/2011/08/22/hiring-easy-as-pie/).

Feel free to shoot me an email (address in my profile) on anything, and please excuse me if I don't reply immediately because we are in different time zones.