Archive for November 3rd, 2008
Startup and Entrepreneurship Resources: How to Find Your Next Co-founder
Tom Preston-Werner, co-founder of GitHub.com mentions great advice about how to find your next co-founder. It’s a must read article.
Some of my favorite quotes are -
Don’t worry about revealing your game-changing secrets; stealth mode is bullshit. Talk to everyone.
A good co-founder should be someone with whom you feel privileged to work. And they should feel privileged to work with you. The two of you should be on very solid ground before you begin your startup adventure, because once you do, the impact of every argument is going to feel like it’s been multiplied by a thousand.
When it’s just you and your thoughts it becomes too easy to pick the first thing that pops into your head. We’re programmed to think all of our ideas are good, but reality tells a different story. Truly good decisions are forged from the furnace of argument, not plucked like daisies from the pasture of a peaceful mind. A good co-founder tells you when your ideas are half-baked and ensures that your good ideas actually get implemented.
Read the complete post here: How to Meet Your Next Co-founder
Note: To read more articles from this series, please visit Startup and Entrepreneurship Resources.
