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我是一名技术专家，拥有学术界、私营部门和现在公共部门的工作经验。我有一个想法在我脑海里酝酿了大约一年，它已经“成型”到足以成为一个概念验证，几个月前我为此提交了一份临时专利申请。目前，我不想辞掉我的全职工作（在联邦机构，GS11级别，但有在三年内晋升到GS15的途径）。但我非常希望我的想法能够成功（或者至少能够实现）。我有一些积蓄，但对于是否要花在“正式”的专利文件上还犹豫不决。我还有另外三个“副业”（更不用说四个孩子和一位娇妻）占据了我大部分的时间。我该如何找到一个我足够信任的人来帮助我实现我的想法并取得成功？我不想讨论我发明的细节。我确实咨询了一位通过他们公司创办过几十家初创公司的专利律师。他说我大概可以为我的发明筹集到2万到5万美元的种子资金。它不是一个“更好的捕鼠器”，而更像是一个“新事物”，以前从未存在过（但以前也从未真正“需要”过）。我是否需要一个联合创始人，还是我可以仅凭一个新奇的玩意儿“慢慢推进”一个企业的创立？我不太擅长社交媒体/营销，而我认为我的新奇玩意儿最有可能在这些领域取得成功（但这纯粹是猜测）。我觉得如果我能找到合适的人，它真的会爆发，但我完全不知道从哪里/如何开始。我现在算是一个雇主了吗，即使我没有任何收入来支付工资？有人听说我发明了这东西，他们问我：“听说你是个发明家？”我有点结巴地说：“嗯……这纯属意外。我不是故意的，我保证。”这主要是为了好玩/开玩笑，并不是说我不相信这个想法。但我知道这种“创业/创始人/种子资金”的事情是 HN（Hacker News）的拿手好戏，所以我想至少问问。

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I'm a technologist and have experience in academia, private, and now public sector work. I had an idea stewing in the back of my mind for about a year and it became 'fully-formed' enough to be a proof-of-concept such that I filed a provisional patent a few months ago. At this point, I don't want to quit my day job (federal agency, GS11, but have an in to be GS15 within 3 years). But I really want my idea to succeed (or at the very least, see the light of day). I have some savings piled up, but I'm hesitant to spend it on 'grown-up' patent papers yet. I also already have 3 other 'side gigs' (not to mention 4 kids and a blushing bride) that take up more than most of my time. How would I even find someone that I could trust enough to help me take my idea and hit a home run with it?<p>I don't want to talk about the details of my invention. I did talk to a patent attorney that's done a couple dozen startups through their firm though. He said I could probably get $20k-$50k in seed money for it. It's not a "better mousetrap", it's more a "new thing" that's never existed before (but also never really 'needed to' before).<p>Do I NEED a co-founder, or can I 'slow-walk' launching a business based solely on a new gizmo? I'm not very good at social media/marketing, which is where I think my gizmo would thrive the most (but that's purely a guess). I feel like if I could find the perfect person, it really could explode, but I have literally not even the faintest clue where/how to start that. Am I an employer all-of-a-sudden even though I have no revenue to pay salaries?<p>Somebody heard that I had invented this thing and they asked me, "So, I hear you're an inventor?" And I kind of stammered and said "well.... it was an accident. I didn't mean to, I promise." This was mostly to be funny/silly, not that I don't believe in the idea. But I know this sort of 'startup/founder(s)/seed-money' thing is HN's bread-and-butter, so I at least thought I'd ask.

Ask HN：联合创始人。我需要吗？我该如何找到他们？