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Finding Your Co-Founders

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Sean and Shawn from Napster met in an IRC channel. In my case, I grew up in Connecticut and spent a fair amount of time in New York – all the while trying to start companies, relatively unsuccessfully. Finding your cofounders [link] [.] Chad and Steve from YouTube met while working at PayPal. Does that make sense?

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From Nothing To Something. How To Get There.

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Post launch, if you gain traction, is where the business person will help take the load off of the technical folks. The business person can take all the meetings while the technical folks work on making the product better. Ron Oh and another factor to bring reality to the table - Sometimes you find out your cofounders suck.