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Hell yes. I think the ideal founders are siblings or very old friends; The kinds of people who could never cut each other out of their lives no matter how mad t
by abstractbill 14y ago
Hell yes. I think the ideal founders are siblings or very old friends; The kinds of people who could never cut each other out of their lives no matter how mad they were at each other. I've come to the conclusion that you're asking for a lot of trouble in accepting anything less than that.
- staunch 14y agoIt's not uncommon for siblings or very old friends to have a falling out. Happens all the time.
- MatthewB 14y agoI've been thinking this as well. However, if you don't have any siblings and none of your very old friends know anything about technology/startups, you're kind of stuck between a rock and a hard place. (me) My old friends are really smart and I'd love to work with them, but when I try to talk to them about doing a startup, they look at my like I'm nuts.
- OafTobark 14y agoMake new friends. Great friendships are not base on how long or how well you've known a person, but how well you connect with another. That can bloom amongst new friendship with a little bit of time as well. I speak from experience. I was in a similar boat. All my closest friends growing up were the wrong fit for doing anything entrepreneurial much less a startup. A friend I met through another mutual friend but rarely talked to turned out to be one of my closest friend and became my previous cofounder. It worked out great.
- dr_doom 14y agoAre there any big real world examples of this?