Your lottery dream job

What’s your “win the lottery dream job”? If you think “If I won the lottery I’d just go sit on some beach” you’re wrong. Trust me. Being idle isn’t all it’s cracked up to be.

So if money is no object and you have a good amount of money to invest into something what’s your dream job?

For me it’s an expanded version of Startup Weekend.  In case you’ve never heard of it before, Startup Weekend is a project that goes to a city and with the help of an all volunteer staff and the support of some sponsors attempts to take an idea from concept to finished project in a weekend. It draws people from a variety of backgrounds from marketing to design to programming and they together agree on an idea and seek to build the damn thing in just around 48 hours.

I’ve never actually been to one - found out about the D.C. area one after it was over - but it sounds like both a hectic mess and a lot of fun. Now these Startup Weekends haven’t generated the next Google or anything but at least one or two of them have launched sites that are at the very least interesting and somewhat functional.

Given my lottery dream scenario I’d love to hire a team of great people with the goal of cranking out a new product every quarter or so. Actually I’d like to generate a product in around 2 months and then do version 2.0 in the second month and then go on to the next (very possibly) unrelated idea.

In some small ways I’m trying to get into that kind of a routine now. The major difference being that I can’t afford to hire a team of great people. If you’re a brilliant web designer, programmer, marketer or whatever who’s independently wealthy and you’d like to work on such a project let me know. Certainly there’s going to be some people who’s Google stock is vesting soon.