Sean Johnson

As they prepare to launch a platform two years in the making, the founders of Malartu Funds share their entrepreneurial journey, and why they’re fundraising using their own site. This piece was originally posted on LinkedIn.    It’s a pretty cool moment when you experience the value of what you’ve built first hand. Malartu fundraising on Malartu is  A most awesome meta announcement and An experience where we test the value of the ecosystem we’re working to create. That’s pretty meta too, actually.  For the uninitiated, Malartu Funds is an online platform derived from a pretty simple, yet arduous mission: Help...

This blog post was originally published on Medium. Its author Sean Johnson is a developer in Chapel Hill and founder of Snooty Monkey, a Ruby on Rails consulting agency. He and colleague Andrew Shindyapin developed the concept of this post after years of frustration about the Y Combinator founder’s popularized comments. A couple years ago, in an essay about startup investing called Black Swan Farming, Paul Graham said, “the best startup ideas seem at first like bad ideas.”  “…if a good idea were obviously good, someone else would already have done it. So the most successful founders tend to work...