Recruiting Advisors

One of the many tasks on my ever growing list of things to do is to find candidates to be advisors for the company. What does this entail? Hehe, this is going to sound like a classifieds ad for date, but here goes.

I would like someone who is honest in their feedback and can take a minute or two to engage me on the ups and downs of doing this business. This person does not have to have business, technology, or entrepreneurial experiences, but should be able to think critically about the business model and other issues. Location doesn't matter, as cell phones and emails work enough, but I do like face to face interaction, so a Phoenix native would be a plus. Age? Well, age doesn't matter at all.

The ideal candidate will be a former consumer ecommerce entrepreneur. She will have had experience raising capital. Finding "A-list" executives. She would have experience dealing with board of directors and investors, the growing pains of growing from zero revenue to $10M, and she would have sold the company for a nice exit.

What can I give in return? My friendship and time, and lots of startup talks for now :-)

Man, that really did come across as a dating ad, haha, but thats the way it goes. Entrepreneurs are match-makers, too, you know?

I've started to keep a list of people and contacts that we know and how we could approach them. So far, the list is mostly family and friends, with a few acquaintances, should be interesting to see how this all works out.

-john