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yeah, you're going to want to pitch em to a co-founder or close friend first. or if you want to follow guy kawasaki's method, find a woman. which i'm not sayi

• spoiledtechie 18y ago
  Why is it that 90% of the time you need a co-founder?
  • brk 18y ago
    It helps to prove you're not insane. If you can convince another reasonably smart and rational person to go along for the ride, it shows that at least you're not the ONLY person in the world to see merit in the idea. Keep in mind this means your co-founder should also have a decent pedigree. It's not very hard to convince your mom that you're smart...
    • ram1024 18y ago
      yeah having a co-founder acts as a "vote of confidence". it's a useful filtering tool that allows investors to cull out a large portion of ideas that the creators weren't able to convince anyone else to support. i'm sure a portion of the ideas were indeed good marketable ideas, but the amount of fat that gets trimmed by this tactic is just too good to pass up. like say if (hypothetically) Y-comb had 10,000 applications and you could easily work the number down to 6000 to read by cutting the single founders out, then it'd be a good idea to do so. maybe after reading through 6000 ideas you might have some left over energy to skim the others for something that might stand out...