Looking for engineers to become partners in a consumer web startup

[ralphtee]

Greetings, I'm looking for technology partners to boostrap a consumer web / cellphone tie-in startup. The general idea is to put targeted, personalised, fully opt-in based advertising on cellphones and to make it actually useful and fun to use. The company will be based in New Zealand and subject to NZ law. I live part of the time in Auckland and part of the time in Warsaw, Poland and my background is in photography and book / multimedia publishing. I need a development team - who will become equity partners, growing their equity share with each completed stage of the project. I would prefer to deal with people face to face but every web developer I know is busy with other projects. There are obvious advantages and disadvantages to doing it this way but as a sideline - which may grown into something more substantial through all our efforts - it ought to work well, given the ability to work 24 hrs a day, with people based in different time zones if required. Stage one development, to bring the project to Proof-of-concept, will require heavy work to create quickly scaleable architecture for a potentially huge database driven site. Please reply with CV and samples of work to ralph at talmont dot com. Samples need to be viewable as live working sites. The project needs brains - beauty will arrive all on its own so please do not send examples of Flash animations and so on. I can do those myself :) I would like to talk to visionaries and technologists - if they inhabit the same body so much the better. Experience in heavy duty database programming is essential. Understanding of cellular broadband delivery also. Looking forward, etc. RT