On 05/30/2016 02:15 AM, CN wrote:
I have a business plan for my product and services both developed on top
of PostgreSQL. I am looking for partners to form a start-up to work on
these product and services.
My ideal candidates are PostgreSQL endorsers. In addition, I hope the
technical details in my plan be exposed during the discussions in
primitive stages as few as possible to potential competitors, non
PostgreSQL endorsers in particular.
As most predecessors did, I feel my idea unprecedented. However, I also
understand that these days many people, including myself in most cases,
tend to interpret terminologies like "business plan", "idea",
"start-up", "cloud", "big data", etc. into "propaganda", "spam", or
worse - "scam". This is why I not only draft the following targets to
which I might send my solicitations, but also attach obvious concerns to
them:
- PostgreSQL mailing lists
concerns:
(a) Will my messages deemed as spam or harassment?
(b) Which mailing list is appropriate for my messages if it really
is? "-jobs" is definitely inappropriate because my pocket is empty
and I am unable to hire anyone.
Assuming you actually have something to announce the only appropriate
list I can think of is --announce. Elsewhere would be deemed spam, in my
opinion.
Above all, the last result I want to get from my inquiries is *silence*.
Well you are basically 'cold calling' people, so I would expect there
would be silence for the most part.
EnterpriseDB and Xtuple are two successful examples I heard of.
Hopefully I will be able to follow their pattens of success. I wonder
how they achieved them, such as:
- How did those initiators find and attract in the first place those
individuals who are willing to discuss their grreat plans?
- How did they discuss their plans without fearing too many of their
sensitive plan details exposed before their companies were formed?
I need your enlightenment! What routes are the least offensive, yet most
effective, efficient, and appropriate ones for me to take to have my
awesome or yet another awful "idea" be delivered to those targeted
PostgreSQL endorsers?
Deliver a working prototype of an idea that other folks can look at.
Thank you in advance!
Best Regards,
CN
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