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How did you meet your co-founder? (or "How *could* you meet potential co-founder(s)?")
- bootload 19y agoI don't think this question has been asked before (did a quick search ~ http://tinyurl.com/2p998t http://tinyurl.com/2p998t ). It's worthy of discussion in my view, because without one your toast. My story is the previous potential co-founder decided that doing a PhD was a fast track to 'better understanding' the problems we had started working on. So much for my powers of persuasion ... hmm now I'm toast. I ask the question for those who might be in the same boat. I've now overcome this hurdle. But I'm still interested in finding out how others solved this problem. Maybe a better questions to ask is "how could (did) you meet your potential co-founder(s)?" So how could you meet your co-founder(s)?
- davidw 19y agoThe night air was heavy with the scent of summer, and the lights of Venice twinkled in the distance. The party was drawing to a close, when our eyes met, and she motioned for me to join her. Drawing closer, her radiant eyes captivated me .... eeerrrr... ooops, sorry, co-founder?
- gyro_robo 19y agoYes, co-founder, not cat.
- bootload 19y agoThat's taking founders to extreme... but not as silly as it sounds. You have just described Sixaparts` Ben & Mena Trott. The key here was the complimentary skillsets & temperments. One writes codes, the other designs & communicates - a great combination.
- NickDouglas 19y agoI found a potential co-founder at a Justin.tv Sunday dinner.
- forsaken 19y agoI am curious about that myself. I want to start a company (Coming up to my senior year in college), and haven't met anyone that would be a plausible co-founder yet.
- nostrademons 19y agoStay in touch with your former classmates. I met my cofounder in my sophomore year of college, but I didn't know he would be my cofounder until Homecoming 2 years after graduation. I don't think he knew either - the business idea grew out of some consulting work he did after graduation. And he didn't know I was into computers, since at the time I knew him, I was a physics major.
- tocomment 19y agoI was thinking of making a web application, it would be like match.com but for finding co-founders? Do you think that would be viable? Would it work? How would you want it to work?
- tocomment 19y agoguess not ...
- ragav 19y agoThese folks are trying something similar but it doesn't seem to have much traction http://www.buildv1.com/about http://www.buildv1.com/about
- louisadekoya 19y agoI recently read about partnerup.com but can't join - apparently because I live outside the U.S.
- brianmckenzie 19y agoI met my co-founder in college ten years ago - he was the first roomate I had when I moved off-campus. At the time I was a web designer (remember back when people who made websites were called 'web designers'? Ha!) and he was programming in this new-fangled language named after coffee, I forget what it was called. We almost immediately started a startup, which failed almost as immediately. So this is actually our second try, and we're probably both dumber now than we were the first time.
- blader 19y agoMove to San Francisco.