I am presently making $144,000 salary as a Director of Product Management, but I really feel it is futile to continue serving the corporate masters. There is this void that I feel in going to work every day -- dealing with commutes, bad stress (not good stress), dumb co-workers, and the office politics. And I realized that while the paycheck sounds to be good on paper, the salary after taxes, living expenses, etc - it is really not that much. I really don't have that much real work per se ( so are the other peers -- no one would want to admit) - a lot of it is really busy work ; preparing Powerpoints, replying to emails, etc. But we all show our face and warm our chair from 9 am to 6 pm because everybody is afraid of being labeled a 'slacker'. Having been through one layoff and one micro-manager, I realize that working in a company is really not that stress-free, secure, or financially viable in the long run.There's no such thing as job security.

I am looking to create a startup / small business (funding can be optional) where we can be the sole owners and make good income over and above what we could earn from working at a day job. Ideally, we will start doing this on the side until it matures. For the past two years, I currently have a side online business where I net about $38,000 per year so I have some experience in starting an online small business, but it is not enough for me to quit my day job yet.

I am not shooting for millions or billions, simply a small business where we could earn $400,000+ so each of us can get $200,000 and then stop working at our day job and then grow the business.

I attended a lot of events and talked to a lot of people and read a lot of books. Some of my favorite business / work philosophy comes from:

. Founders of Atlassian (Jira and Confluence) -- try Google them

. 37 Signals' Getting Real
. David Heinemeier Hansson at Startup School 08 -- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0CDXJ6bMkMY

. 37 Signals' Re-work

. Blue Ocean Strategy book

My background:

. BS in Computer Science ( graduated with perfect GPA)

. Worked as programmer (software design engineer) at Microsoft

. MS from Stanford

. worked over 10 years as engineer and later product managers at various high tech companies in the bay area (Yahoo, PayPal, etc).

. strong SEO, online marketing, web app, viral, affiliate marketing, etc.

. smart and organized

What I am looking is:

* programmer / coder that could build beautiful web applications from scratch , say in RoR

* programmer / coder that wants to be owners

* you want to be in charge and are looking to break free from your modern day slavery ( day job )

Ideally:
* you have enough free time on nights/days to do coding, perhaps aside from your not too-demanding day job

* you have the know-how and skills to build medium-scale to large web application from scratch

If all this sounds interesting to you, let me know please.. my email is: productguy09 (at) gmail dot com

Thank you for your time!

The end result of computer programming is a program. A program is
made of object files. Object files are composed of code and data
sections. The end result is a binary put together by a linker. At
least that’s how programs used to be made.

Fundamental data structures build upon each other; the bit, the byte,
the array, the linked list, the hash table. Through these combinations
the fantastic structures of modern day programs and operating systems
can be created; but the end result is still a number. A specific set
of bits arranged in a way such that the bits of that number can be
interpreted by a special machine, but a number nonetheless.

Each program is of a particular sort of integer, one which, out of the
space of all possible integers that length, happens to interpret
in. way to produce a direction of reality; a specific time such that
it is in control of space and it guides it. This is what the
programmer is intending the program do to and this number is an exact
representation of it. No more, no less.

Get 1 bit wrong in that number and the program could cease to work
correctly. Given that we have control over all of the bits in this
number, getting them arranged in the correct order is quite an
accomplishment, but of course, we are using the computer as a tool to
help with this process. It is tireless, it doesn’t make mistakes. It
can deal with the magnitude of bits composing your program because
they are it’s native tongue. We only speak in abstract about the bits
of the machine. Few work directly with them, many of our minds are
not capable of such things, especially in such magnitude.

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