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yes, it was... YC definitely set me up on several "cofounder dates" during the course of YC... some of them looked promising, but ultimately none worked out. Ev
by jazzychad 16y ago
yes, it was... YC definitely set me up on several "cofounder dates" during the course of YC... some of them looked promising, but ultimately none worked out. Eventually I had to just bear down and prepare for launch/demo day. As soon as I stopped looking, the right person came along :)
- rjett 16y agoCool! I'd be interested to hear your experience with 1) getting into YC as a single founder and 2) working alone in the ensuing months. That's quite a feat.
- jazzychad 16y agoI've been considering writing a post about my experience to this effect. Basically it boiled down to sheer ignorance. I didn't know that being a single-founder was such a big deal (in a negative sense), so I didn't know I should have been worried/nervous about it when applying/interviewing. As for working alone... I had done so many personal projects at nights/weekends after work at my day job that working alone was just natural (again, ignorance was bliss). I was also able to draw from each of the previous projects to piece together what I needed to build Notifo very quickly. This is the advantage of working on a bunch of different small projects all the time. The criteria I used for starting a new project was that I had to do at least one thing I had never done before which required me to learn a new language/technology/framework/API/etc.... after a dozen projects or so, this built up to a huge arsenal of skills to throw at new projects. Never stop learning. That said, having had a co-founder for about a week, there has been an obvious increase in productivity, so for that I am truly thankful.
- christonog 16y agoYou weren't able to find someone in your personal network first? I'm surprised, especially since you already got YC funding.