how-to-find-a-co-founder 
The Next Web
JANUARY 30, 2014
Often times, a startup entrepreneur has a good business idea, but doesn’t know how to build the product or service. In many cases, these entrepreneurs are on the hunt for co-founders to help them build their businesses. In many cases, these entrepreneurs are on the hunt for co-founders to help them build their businesses.
Startup Professionals Musings
APRIL 17, 2022
In fact, I would broaden the definition of partner from co-founder to “business partner.” The reason is that good attributes apply equally well to “external” partners, as they do to internal partners, like a co-founder or CTO. The relationship has to have trust, communication, and respect in order to work.
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Startup Professionals Musings
MAY 25, 2022
Business partners can be co-founders in a startup, multiple owners of an existing business, or a joint venture. As a former startup investor, I was often involved with due diligence on founders, and I felt that founders should do the same on co-founders, as well as investors.
Both Sides of the Table
OCTOBER 26, 2020
Today we’re announcing that my partner Kara Nortman is becoming Co-Managing Partner at Upfront Ventures and I can’t tell you how thrilled I am to welcome her to her new role. and of course a relentless pursuit of helping founders succeed. So mostly we just had to listen to customer feedback from founders, VCs and LPs.
Startup Professionals Musings
FEBRUARY 8, 2021
In my experience as an angel investor for new startups, I’m always surprised by how many entrepreneurs are looking for funding without outside advisors. Unless you have a co-founder or two with the business skills to complement your technical ones, you need a friendly Advisory Board. Board members provide inexpensive expertise.
Startup Professionals Musings
APRIL 8, 2023
Cash isn’t always the scarcest resource startups have to invest – more often it’s the leadership capital of under-experienced and over-stretched entrepreneurs and co-founders. Most new startup founders start out by assuming they need to spread their leadership efforts evenly across all team members. Rising stars. Squeaky wheels.
View from Seed
APRIL 14, 2020
The way investors process investments, what they look for, and how they behave will likely shift in some pretty interesting ways in the coming years. VCs are always founder focused no matter the market environment. FOMO is slowly being replaced by a different fear, the F ear O f L ooking D umb.
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