4 ms·
Going solo is terribly hard. The worst part is that you don't know how much you're missing by not having a co-founder until you've seen what great collaboratio
by swies 16y ago
Going solo is terribly hard. The worst part is that you don't know how much you're missing by not having a co-founder until you've seen what great collaboration is like (spoiler: it is really good).
Of all the great things to get out of doing Y Combinator three years ago, the best by a mile was teaming up with Sascha to work on BaseShield. We ended up shelving that product but it's incredible to look at BaseShield and now Ninite and realize how completely they were shaped and improved by our collaboration.
I'm not talking about the set-theory union of our ideas, it's more like a tug-of-war as we'd shape the concepts and features underlying our work. Ideas always improved through this process, often radically. This was especially true for core questions like what does it do, how does it work, and what will users see.
Briefly, if it seems OK to work alone I'd say it's because you don't know what you're missing.
- mLewisLogic 16y agoThe search for a co-founder has been on as a serious milestone for the last month. Solo is something I chose when I started because I didn't have a co, and didn't want to let that be a blocking issue. I'm fully aware what a great co could do for my biz. If anybody knows of a rockstar Python dev in NYC, let me know.
- alain94040 16y agoI apologize in advance if it's spam, but I'm putting together two co-founders meetup in the coming weeks: Silicon Valley on Nov 2nd: http://www.meetup.com/Co-Founders-Wanted-Meetup/calendar/14858537/ http://www.meetup.com/Co-Founders-Wanted-Meetup/calendar/148... Austin on Dec 6th: http://www.meetup.com/Co-Founders-Austin/calendar/15251144/ http://www.meetup.com/Co-Founders-Austin/calendar/15251144/ If your city is not listed, you know what to do :-)
- chailatte 16y agoThere's no reason you can't have great collaboration with close friends or mentors without giving away 55% of your company. I know the rebuttal will be "but the collaboration is more intimate and thorough, and the other person cares"....well, I bet you 10 people's opinion you trust is as valuable as a co-founder's.