I've sparingly been working on a side project for a while by myself and i've considered teaming up with a technical co-founder, for known positive reasons. That's the wrong question. It sounds like you've already made the decision and want to hear anecdotes that validate your choice, and you'll probably disregard the survivorship bias explicitly asked for successful examples and participation bias hacker news users voluntarily answer. After that, I suspect the question you will want to ask instead is "How do I find a good cofounder outside of college?
I posted a craigslist ad looking for a technical cofounder in Found a guy, started a company, sold it for a few million five years later, and are working on our second company together.
It happens! What on craigslist section? I have been thinking about posting here as more people would be in my target audience? Had HN existed or been on my radar in I think that would have worked better! Were there any traits that you were looking for in your cofounder? Everything you're good at they shouldn't be and everything they're good at you shouldn't be. Every human has flaws.
VCs and angels often talk about team risk and how its better to have multiple but not too many founders. This is because every individual has flaws and founders offset each others. The team risk is the sum total of the founders intrinsic risk. To give yourself the best shot, find someone who will hold you while bombs are going off in the trenches but isn't totally like you.
Your wife is not like you, but you still love her. Find someone who is different but you can love through the hard times. DanielBMarkham on Oct 17, parent prev next [β]. Remember anything about how you worded the ad?
