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This is incredibly exciting! However, as someone who has been asked my many founders for help finding a co-founder, there are some yellow flags going off for m
by NickNaraghi 5y ago
This is incredibly exciting!
However, as someone who has been asked my many founders for help finding a co-founder, there are some yellow flags going off for me.
Beyond trial projects, how does this initiative seek to build trust and values-alignment between new co-founder matches?
- kcorbitt 5y agoI think there will inevitably be a long "dating" period with a new co-founder who you're working with for the first time, and a fairly high attrition rate with these relationships, concentrated in the early days. In practice though, I do believe that if you work with someone for several months on a serious trial project you should be able to build a fair amount of confidence in the relationship's potential. I'd definitely still recommend talking through what a co-founder breakup would look like and signing documents that include a vesting cliff before actually starting something real together though. (That advice applies no matter how you met your co-founder.)
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- jasfi 5y agoYou're right, it's a very difficult problem. Having co-founders at all is risky. If you've never worked with them before, the risk is quite high, I would say. Trial projects are the only way to build some type of trust.