Co-founder Wanted for Interest Intelligence Platform

For a while now, I’ve been toying with the concept of an attention profiling service. Over the course of 2010 I’ve started building a (pretty sophisticated) prototype and it has now taken the shape of a startup that has great potential. For the time being, it’s called Reccoon.

Reccoon in Short

Initially, Reccoon will be an Open API that can be used by third-parties to analyze a person’s interests. Send Reccoon a Twitter username or a Facebook ID, and Reccoon will return a comprehensive semantic attention profile – all based on a person’s online activity. These profiles can be used by third-parties to provide greater relevance and personalization.

As you might suspect, there is a lot of data-analysis going on to make this happen and scale is a central theme. To make the Reccoon infrastructure highly scalable and the profiling service unique, Reccoon has a few tricks up it’s sleeve. This makes it very interesting for third-parties and could result in the option of a lucrative ‘buyout exit’. More about all of this in person.

At a later stage, Reccoon can turn its focus on the consumers. In doing so, we will make sure that there is more user interaction around the tools provided by Reccoon. Consumers can control their interests and attention, they decide which third-party can look into their attention data. And ultimately, Reccoon will monetize stored attention.

Not convinced this could make us filthy rich? Talk to me, and I will convince you. Right now I’m keeping media exposure to a minimum, but once we start our correspondence, I will send along screencasts, a business overview and competitive analyses.

About Me

My name is Dominiek, I consider myself to be a hacker that can fly high and dive down deep when necessary. I have a passion for building web applications, integrating with data services and build out a cool service. My strong suit is technology strategy and technical tactics. I’m sure you can find out more about me by googling around.

About You

I hope that you have these characteristics:

• You are highly analytical
• You are disciplined and more organized than me
• You are more perfectionistic than me, you want stretch the extra mile
• You are fucking smart, but modest about it ;]

And this frame of mind:

• Not scared of great ambition
• Willing to take on big challenges
• Flexible attitude (e.g. spend some time overseas, willing to go full-time at the right time)
• Risk tolerant (but not suicidal)

And I expect you to be able to dive down deep. That is, actually write code and work on the prototype. Reccoon is a high-tech focussed startup and a lot of stuff needs to be build, and in a way the founding team is part of the IP that makes a buyout interesting.

Last, but not least. I’m looking for either of these two skill-sets: (The post-founding team can be adjusted to it)

Data Wizard / Intelligent System Mastermind: Solid computer-science skills, ability to write complex algorithms and recommender systems, interest in AI and statistical algorithms.

OR

User Experience Joker / Product Development King: Good product/web abstraction, concrete frontend skills and an interest in building interfaces that solve information overload problems.

OR

You think I’m full of shit and you will tell me why YOU are the perfect Co-founder.

Get in touch

Finding the right partner is not easy, and I will allocate a significant time frame to find the right match. I assume we will collaborate on something small first, and then start putting in more time later.

If interested, please contact me at cofound@dominiek.com!