Hey Coinbuddy,
I seen your request for working together on a bitcoin startup. I have a LLC company in the US centered around Computer Services(bitcoin).
I have lots of knowledge in the technical aspects of Bitcoin, I started in July of 2013 mining bitcoin, and have been growing ever since, except for since this past August when everything fell through the floor. I know basically everything about mining, and the stratum protocol, as I implemented a full pass through stratum proxy.
I currently for this past year have been trying to get away from mining, and looking at creating software services that support working with bitcoin, and bringing it to the masses.
My startup plan is to think about, and implement all the software needed to make it easy for a person to run a software package that sits on a server with a full bitcoin node, and manages User, transaction association, and provide the hooks for websites to leverage this backend software. Because currently, the ability to tie/track a website user with bitcoin balances seems pretty difficult, and I am not sure if there are any public solutions.
Something that expands on this:
http://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=655722.0Also, I've started a blog that will try to develop and document this idea.
http://coin-track.comI personally see my skill set in software architecture, and back-end development.