BCC every message is evil, as it can be misused as in this case. SendGrid should never allow that, or at least should flag such behavior. At the minimum, they should notified account owners of this change.

The attacker got SG to change the email on file, so the notification would just be sent to him.

I like LinkedIn way "Person Name via LinkedIn"<[email protected]>. This shows person name and name of service.

In this case, its certainly would suffer

In addition to overall technical concepts, its nice if the business person understand the product development and software release process, and have some development exposure. Code breaks, build fails, software fails - all these things happen in the development and could be fixed. Lots of business people just do not count these factors and that's many fail, not because of the software, but because partners could not work together.

you can also consider adding a technical co-founder and you do the best part yourself. Its important that person get along and work with you to sell or develop your vision. Keep you search open and not limit to just a non-technical founder. I am in the same boat. Ping me sometime and we can chat.

Finding a cofounder is like finding a marriage partner. You spent time and get to know each other before committing long term. Doing a trial projects may be one thing but its not just a matter of few days or meetings.

I second with "Spent some money" advise. Business people should also prove that they have a skin in the game by some way. Obviously it varies depending upon what else you are brining on table, and what has been done before. Money factor may not be as critical if the business person has already have mockups, market research, and many things that could have been done before or in parallel. You just have to show that you are not just looking for coder and then see if it works without spending any of your own energy.

Overall, I like the post, but title is bit confusing or contradictory to what Jason talked in the post. How to earn a co-founder would probably be a betters title.

I usually suggest times and in addition depending upon who is the person and how hungry I am to meet, I add "Here are some of my current open time windows that I prefer. If none of these works for you, please suggest the day and time that works for you and I will be able to shuffle my existing meetings to accommodate this" So far working well.