wwsculley

Where can one find resources connecting seed/early stage startups with people who are looking to volunteer (for the startup) part time? -are any HN'ers looking for someone to help launch a product, find clients, or find partnerships?

I like the idea of helping resource-constrained ventures in a non-technical capacity in order to learn more about how a business operates.

Jobnob.com looks like a good answer to this question. But I wanted to ask HN first.

Hey HN,

I would like your advice on how to assess potential inter-business or inter-institutional relationships for any sort of industry.

By relationships, I mean any connection between two businesses. For example, how can you tell a local independent grocer that his business would benefit from initiating a relationship with Business X. Business X could be a supplier, another neighborhood grocer looking for a partnership (why?), a local website that specializes in promoting local grocers, etc.

In other words, how does one identify a business's potential for making mutually beneficial connections?

If you were to build a one-size-fits-all template to assess this type of potential for any sort of business in order to facilitate these connections, what variables would you look at - size, location, etc.?

I have been thinking about these questions for a while now, but hit a wall recently. I thought I would pose this to some other minds.

w

Are you technically savvy and interested in partnering to take on round two of Facebook?

Regarding: http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/10/03/facebook-co-founder-departs-to-build-extensible-enterprise-productivity-suite/