Man seeks Entrepreneur

(I'm reposting this message for a friend and fellow entrepreneur, Barry Thornton)

Hello co-Brainiacs, I am engaged in a search for an Entrepreneur and though you might have some leads.

 

A couple of months ago I invented a device that does a very good job of converting wind or water into electricity.  I did the patent search and reached the conclusion that it is mine (of course filing a patent helped).  Built a rough prototype to verify that it works, it does.  It is very simple and low cost in nature, efficient, has very low manufacturing tolerances (low precision, it will work in dusty and dirty environments, even underwater,  with very little maintenance or skill (the old AK47 idea)), and can be mostly built from typically indigenous materials (wood, bamboo, local cloth, etc).  Only high-tech stuff is some simple magnets, copper wire, and very common/simple electronic parts (although the performance goes up a lot with a bit more real high tech parts).

 

I came up with it while thinking about energy in third world countries.  The economic model was to license the technology for local fabrication and sale.  I later realized that employing Seth Godin's Tribe model would work well for selling finished units in First World countries such as ours, and that the generator part of it will work well on things like small water wheels etc. so there are several products to offer.

 

It is ideal for a bootstrap entrepreneur; I will provide the product development, engineering, and documentation.  I will also work this the marketing and collaterals.  I have contacts in India and Pakistan and can get relationships in China.  I know how to get relationships for licensing and fabrication set up there.  I am working on a pilot program in Pakistan to verify the veracity of the indigenous part of the claims I have made.

 

What I don't have the time to build and run the company to do it.

 

I contacted Bijoy Goswami of Bootstrap fame (I really like his group) but after some interviews realized that they are on a discover journey and I need someone with moxie and experience to take advantage of this.  

 

The relationship I am looking for puts me in a minority position, that is I want someone else to assume helm, the run the show, and thus earn the big rewards but behind the scenes I can help make it all work and will certainly do much of the evangelism needed.

 

Thus I put my need to you.  Any ideas?

You can reach Barry at barrythornton1 [at] gmail.com

Comments

[Joshua Baer]

I use the tag "ideahose" on blog posts of this sort - sharing ideas for new companies I can't act on. I stole that from Cyan Banister.

[Michael Wilson]

I like the idea of syndicating ideas. I think there a lot of guys out there with good ideas that can't run the company for a variety of reasons (e.g., don't want to, don't have skill set, are already doing something else) and those that want to run companies but are high on execution but low on creativity.

[Ben Hamill]

I'm not the man he's looking for by any means, but if his device turns out to work like he says (i.e. his pilot program shows up good), then this is a great thing to have invented. I hope he does well. Wow.