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One thing I have learned from previous start-ups I've worked on is that choosing your partners carefully is extremely important. You really need to have worked
by LeBlanc 16y ago
One thing I have learned from previous start-ups I've worked on is that choosing your partners carefully is extremely important. You really need to have worked with them before and trust them completely (trust both their honesty, and their competence). A bad co-founder can ruin even the most successful venture.
Right now I'm working on my venture alone because I just moved out to the bay area and don't know anyone out here whom I have worked with before. Sure, doing it alone is tough, but I'd rather do it alone than have a co-founder I wasn't sure about.
Are you thinking about starting something alone / searching for a co-founder? Feel free to shoot me an email if you wan perspectives on doing it alone. Good luck!
- neilk 16y agoI'm not thinking about doing this myself. The very idea of looking for co-founders among strangers seems absolutely bonkers to me. I am just interested that there appears to be a mini-industry springing up to serve people that have this fantasy. It suggests to me that we now have a new set of cultural myths about entrepreneurship, to some extent created by this very website. Consider how many fortunes are made selling the old image of entrepreneurship. Books with titles like "Millionaire's Mind". They make the elementary mistake of assuming that if one emulates the characteristics of successful people (or organizations), this will lead to one's own success. For example, Jim Collins has made his entire career out of telling people how to emulate successful organizations. He observes that great (or greatly profitable) organizations, like Microsoft, have all set themselves what he calls a Big Hairy Audacious Goal, such as "A computer on every desk and in every home". And pretty soon the accounting departments at fourth-rate retailers are taking weekend retreats to ask themselves what their "BHAG" is.