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How did you meet your co-founder? (or "How could you meet potential co-founder(s)?")

#1

Post by bootload » Wed, Jun 13, 2007, 10:53 AM UTC

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#2

Post by bootload » Wed, Jun 13, 2007, 10:56 AM UTC

I don't think this question has been asked before (did a quick search ~ http://tinyurl.com/2p998t ). It's worthy of discussion in my view, because without one your toast.

My story is the previous potential co-founder decided that doing a PhD was a fast track to 'better understanding' the problems we had started working on. So much for my powers of persuasion ... hmm now I'm toast. I ask the question for those who might be in the same boat. I've now overcome this hurdle. But I'm still interested in finding out how others solved this problem. Maybe a better questions to ask is "how could (did) you meet your potential co-founder(s)?"

So how could you meet your co-founder(s)?

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#3

Post by davidw » Wed, Jun 13, 2007, 11:43 AM UTC

The night air was heavy with the scent of summer, and the lights of Venice twinkled in the distance. The party was drawing to a close, when our eyes met, and she motioned for me to join her. Drawing closer, her radiant eyes captivated me ....

eeerrrr... ooops, sorry, co-founder?

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#4

Post by NickDouglas » Wed, Jun 13, 2007, 3:33 PM UTC

I found a potential co-founder at a Justin.tv Sunday dinner.

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#5

Post by forsaken » Wed, Jun 13, 2007, 4:37 PM UTC

I am curious about that myself. I want to start a company (Coming up to my senior year in college), and haven't met anyone that would be a plausible co-founder yet.

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#6

Post by tocomment » Wed, Jun 13, 2007, 4:52 PM UTC

I was thinking of making a web application, it would be like match.com but for finding co-founders? Do you think that would be viable? Would it work? How would you want it to work?

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Post by nostrademons » Wed, Jun 13, 2007, 4:52 PM UTC

forsaken wrote: post #5

I am curious about that myself. I want to start a company (Coming up to my senior year in college), and haven't met anyone that would be a plausible co-founder yet.

Stay in touch with your former classmates. I met my cofounder in my sophomore year of college, but I didn't know he would be my cofounder until Homecoming 2 years after graduation. I don't think he knew either - the business idea grew out of some consulting work he did after graduation. And he didn't know I was into computers, since at the time I knew him, I was a physics major.

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Post by tocomment » Wed, Jun 13, 2007, 6:57 PM UTC

tocomment wrote: post #6

I was thinking of making a web application, it would be like match.com but for finding co-founders? Do you think that would be viable? Would it work? How would you want it to work?

guess not ...

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#9

Post by gyro_robo » Wed, Jun 13, 2007, 7:00 PM UTC

davidw wrote: post #3

The night air was heavy with the scent of summer, and the lights of Venice twinkled in the distance. The party was drawing to a close, when our eyes met, and she motioned for me to join her. Drawing closer, her radiant eyes captivated me .... eeerrrr... ooops, sorry, co-founder?

Yes, co-founder, not cat.

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#10

Post by brianmckenzie » Wed, Jun 13, 2007, 7:12 PM UTC

I met my co-founder in college ten years ago - he was the first roomate I had when I moved off-campus. At the time I was a web designer (remember back when people who made websites were called 'web designers'? Ha!) and he was programming in this new-fangled language named after coffee, I forget what it was called.

We almost immediately started a startup, which failed almost as immediately. So this is actually our second try, and we're probably both dumber now than we were the first time.