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For me and my co-founder, especially during the dark days of 1) tech not working 2) clients stopping service with us or 3)someone yelling at us over Twitter, em
by jordo37 14y ago
For me and my co-founder, especially during the dark days of 1) tech not working 2) clients stopping service with us or 3)someone yelling at us over Twitter, email or phone - it is Critical to have a team and more importantly to have a partner. I don't share all of my concerns with the whole team because that could shift the mood of the company and damage our internal resolve. But I need to be able to talk about the full reality of the situation with someone and depending on who is having an up day one of us can rally the other person around to being enthused again.
Without that, I know there would be days I would be lost, and if that lingered at all I could see weeks of inactivity at exactly those points where we needed to move fast.
I whole-heartedly agree with Jessica that having a co-founder that, above all, you can trust is huge (I'm lucky that I do), but I agree with the other reply here that a single founder, in almost all situations is more trouble than any sort of cofounder disputes.
- chmike 14y agoI fully agree, but the partner doesn't have to be cofounder. It could be the wife (or husband), a very good friend or anything equivalent. From what I have read so far the main difficulties of a single founder is lacking an alternate view and help to restore drive when in doubt or exhausted. Of course other kind of problems may show up if the business is a startup of the dropbox kind. But this is a mazzerati problem. My feeling is that more than one founders expose to much more difficult and nasty problems than a single founder will met. A single founder can find paliatives for his weakness which do exist and shouldn't be ignored.
- jordo37 14y agoI can see what you mean here - my wife is my life partner, and she is a fantastic balance outside the support my business partner and I provide each other. But she has other things going on - her life is more than just waiting to hear about how Perfect Audience is going and having someone as focused as you are on your work baby, but in different ways, is useful.