Title: <i>Premise 1:</i><p>Investors/Incubators over-estimate their ability to pick good ideas/startups.<p><i>Premise 2:</i><p>An MVP built by a lone, but talented techie is almost as likely to turn into something 'successful' as a startup on angellist that has: 4 founders, 9 advisors, 13 press releases, 600 followers, etc<p><i>Premise 3:</i><p>Most freelancers will not build and/or follow-through with their ideas, because they perceive their opportunity cost to be too high.<p><i>Premise 4:</i><p>HackerNews has a decent number of talented freelancers with good ideas.<p>Based on these premises, I present <i>The Proposition [Version 1.0]:</i><p>I'll pay you $5000 to build the MVP of that idea you've been kicking around in your head for the last year. Once you're done (ideally within 2 months), you can go back to earning your full potential. At this point, I'll take over and spend an additional $3000 to acquire enough users/customers for us to evaluate the project's likelihood of success. We split the resulting company 50-50, as equal co-founders.
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