I moved to San Francisco without knowing a soul. I started going to a Steelers bar every Sunday during football season and it's where I met my first new group of friends. It was a lot easier when everyone around me was talking about the team/game.

Nothing comes to mind regarding the underlying technology that I wouldn't share. Shoot me an email if you have a question.

Even though I've been at it for a couple years, I'm confident a tech-focused post from me would be a bit underwhelming.

Not at all. Can you tell me which part made it come off that way? I'd like to edit it.

I have a product in beta right now that was created to solve this problem for my own agency and now I'm bringing it to market as SAAS - https://www.getbridgeanalytics.com . I don't list the actionable insights you describe on the splash page features but that is what is being built behind the scenes. Its in very early beta but I'd love to have you join if you are interested. Let me know at [email protected]

I use it for "real work" as well and love everything you mentioned but can also add a big one: Access your dev environment, anywhere.

Ex. I was at an old client's office catching up and a potential user (large agency) fell into the discussion and expressed an interest in my application. He liked it but wanted to see a few additional metrics, that while stored in the database, were not available in the view. I Jumped on a nearby laptop and added it for him in 5min.

His agency is currently in the beta. (probably would've still joined without things going down this way but you get the point)

Do you already have a complete MVP? Do you have significant funding? Your AngelList profile leads me to believe that you don't.

Friendly Advice: If I was to seriously be evaluating this as a potential CTO, I would want my equity stake to be equal to that of you and your partner.

5%-10% to the person doing all the heavy, technical lifting is very low.

>So if Bing wants to rank Bing.com higher than Google.com on the keyword "Search Engine", all they need to do is to pay link farms to link to Google?

During this "crackdown campaign" Google has been on, I have sat in on meetings at large clients where they've pulled sites that are supposedly link farms (according to google) and put together an ad buy on behalf of competitors meant to cause these penalties to be levied and WMT messages to be sent.

Sounds like a classic Bait and Switch, albeit a good 10 year long one on Google's behalf.

They needed to provide a useful service to begin with to get the traction (good search algorithms for the web-that-is), but now that they are the incumbent, it is more in their interests to penalise website owners and force them to buy ads.

It's sad, but it's normal monopolist behaviour.

I'm with you. This feels like a pretty big reach.

Most entrepreneurs I know aren't motivated by the money and it seems your points are mostly based on $$$.

In my opinion its more of a calling that can't be ignored and there are far more pros than the possibility of becoming "rich".