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I'm a single founder. A lot of times, I wish it's not just me. It's hard looking for a cofounder. Instead of waiting to find one, I went ahead with my startup.

• pedalpete 17y ago
  I second dannyr. I too am a solo founder. I believe that the challenges of being solo are a combination of psychological and business. From a psychological perspective. You'll have ups and downs in business. Good days where you think you're the best, bad days when you wonder why you're doing this at all, and of course, everything in between. A co-founder understands the different stages, and you get to celebrate/commiserate and continually motivate each other. From a business perspective, I think it's easier to understand. Nobody can know everything. Different angles of how to approach the business (and sometimes but maybe to a lesser degree the technology). Is one an expert in marketing while the other is a product person? If the partnership is a strong symbiotic relationship, then you are clearly more than the sum of the parts. Plus, two people can get more done in the same amount of time as one (not always, but usually). Two people have 1.23xxx times more network (lots of overlap), etc. etc.