We are three right now, we're not sure if us (the initial attendees) will be matches - that's part of what we want to find out. we'd be happy if others find cofounders and we don't. All of us are already working on side projects, but are not far enough along for that to be a hindrance towards joining someone elses project. We don't want any special position over the other attendees - in fact you'll get root on iter8.org and if everyone decides to do a startup without one or all of us, we would not complain. We do this exactly to find out who to work with. We're secretive because we have jobs right now, and bragging anonymously doesn't work.
What kind of generic information would help you? We're pretty excited about graphs, social software, collaborative filtering, event coordination, behavior analysis, and collaborative editors, but would consider working on anything interesting with a realistic chance to succeed. We like iterating and letting the market guide us. These are roughly the things we agree on, and why we are considering to work together.
If you email us at [email protected] we can give you more personal info.
Yeah we prefer small groups and focus on actually getting work done. We want to figure out by actions not words if some subsets of us would make good teams.