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Ask HN: How did you meet your cofounder?
- fapi1974 10y agoThis is extremely timely for me. I met my co-founder 10 years ago, and we got on super well and made a great match. She had to bail for personal reasons, and now I face the decision of whether to continue solo, find another cofounder, or fold up shop.
- ralmidani 10y agoTaking CS50 at Harvard Extension School; we chatted during the TF-led section.
- Exuma 10y agoOne through a forum, one through this previous cofounder
- Jeaye 10y agoFor me, AngelList was what allowed us to find each other. https://angel.co/ https://angel.co/
- pbiggar 10y agoHow did angelist help?
- rodrigocoelho 10y agoI met a cofounder while interviewing potential customers during the early validation, pre MVP. His questions were smart, he knew the market and has been a founder before. Right after the meeting, I called my other cofounder and told her we should setup a meeting and get him onboard.
- gkop 10y agoThrough a friend of a friend.
- zznik 10y agoI met my cofounder Alexander in university hostel. We lived in the same block but different rooms =) Now we are building service for ecommerce http://mydataprovider.com/ http://mydataprovider.com/
- crystalPalace 10y agoI was a cofounder and became acquainted with the founder through a mutual friend.
- skraelingjar 10y agoMy cofounder is an old friend from high school.
- thirdreplicator 10y agoCraigslist
- joshmn 10y agoMore details please. This sounds like a good story.
- mnbbrown 10y agoStartup Catalyst in 2014. http://www.startupcatalyst.com.au/ http://www.startupcatalyst.com.au/
- philippz 10y ago2013 there was a big flood in Germany. I was a victim and lost a lot of my stuff. I instantly wrote a simple and fast HTML-app to coordinate all those thousands of volunteering flood-helpers. The city and the university who tried to organize all volunteering citizens officially communicated the tool in press releases and on their websites. Max, my todays co-founder wrote an e-mail and asked if he could help...
- chester195 10y agoMy cofounder's wife hired me to tutor their kids in maths during my PhD. Got talking about some ideas after a lesson and hit it off.
- agibsonccc 10y agoSlept 20 ft away from each other at a hacker hostel in SF.
- omarforgotpwd 10y agoHe was my my college professor teaching calulus: my first class of my first day of freshman year.
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- waqasaday 10y agoShe was my teacher’s sister, we became friends in 2004. Stayed in touch, started first startup in 2010, later started working again on a small project in 2011, which eventually became our current startup Markhor. Got married together in 2015!
- id122015 10y agoIt is known thay many startup guys are single. And me and my cofounder, for our no longer existing startup, met in a place whith a group of other guys. All of us were going to meet one woman. For private affairs. Its a strange situation but it happens.
- wayn3 10y agoI worked a contract at a company. Met my cofounder there. My contract ended. We began working on a thing.
- vram22 10y agoThere was and maybe still is this site called TechCofounder that was started some years ago, by a Korean guy (maybe in the States).