@futantagenda One of the dev is younger to me and we share a brotherly bond since we’ve known for a long time. But he isn’t interested in becoming a co-founder for the fact that he’s seen me grow the business from early on even before writing the 1st line of code. He is well aware of the stress and hassle associated with being a cofounder and also English not being his native language, I see some challenge of articulating his thoughts when questioned by any native English speakers.. Also he isn’t very keen on being a cofounder, but a possible CTO role and future employee stock options is the only thing pushing him to work for very low salary.. Hence the question of maybe an outside Technical Co-founder might be useful?
Again the industry I am in will eventually require huge investments in the long run and there’s only so many 2nd hand scrap equipments, makeshift units we can build..
Often times we are in a position where we need to buy 2-3 desktops, furnitures and equipments in a given month. And the profit of that month is only enough to address 1 departmental needs, and we end up rationing our growth for that month, while the other depart ends up waiting for 2 months to get their hands on the needed devices..
Our Fulfillment Centre is comically semi manual and faulty coz we can only afford to buy 1 component at one given month and it takes us a year to establish even a remotely efficient system, which we compensate by hiring more people coz they are cheaper on the short run..
And that applies to all the depart and aspect of the business, coz some things are more expensive than others and some infrastructure value is extracted over a period of 5 years while requiring its installation just few months from the start..
We have just enough cash not to die and survive the other day. We hit what we kill.
And for that reason we only hire people when the system breaks and not before, just before the event we only pray that things don’t break soon.
to know, links please?