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Couples therapy for startup co-founders

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Is “cofounder coaching" all that different from a service a management consultant might typically perform? In any event, getting in the same room together and listening without interrupting seems like a pretty fundamental part of improving a relationship, no matter what that's called.

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Re: Couples therapy for startup co-founders

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Is “cofounder coaching" all that different from a service a management consultant might typically perform? In any event, getting in the same room together and listening without interrupting seems like a pretty fundamental part of improving a relationship, no matter what that's called.

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22% of founders ask their family for money. Probably because either 1) they don't want to risk the relationship or 2) their family doesn't have much to give.

https://clutch.co/consulting/resources/startup-funding-sourc...

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If you need therapy with your business partner, cut your losses and move on.

That’s easy to say when you don’t have payroll to make and investors to please. Once you get to a point where peoples livelihoods depend on you things change a bit.

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Yo, cheers to this. It has been a real struggle.

My wife founded designtherapy.org to provide design thinking + couples counseling. Basically a way to systematically think about positive opportunities together, achieve dreams within conflict etc. Might check it out.

Counseling is hella cheaper than divorce.

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One of the powers of having two or more cofounders is that you will see things differently. Those differences bring opportunity that neither one could see alone, but, those differences also bring risks.

Consulting like this can go along way towards bridging those differences to build a stronger collaboration between partners.

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Is “cofounder coaching" all that different from a service a management consultant might typically perform? In any event, getting in the same room together and listening without interrupting seems like a pretty fundamental part of improving a relationship, no matter what that's called.

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It’s a sign of deeper problems if you can’t communicate with your (work) partner well enough to avoid these issues. Your job isn’t a marriage and the analogy falls flat. If you’re having enough communicative difficulties that you’re considering failure, then you’re already enough in the shit that one or both of you need to move on.

And when your startup encounters business issues, do you just cut your losses and pick the next idea? Of course not. You work through problems when there's value on the other side of the problem, and communications problems are just one class of problems that may crop up in an otherwise highly valuable relationship. You hire people to help you solve other issues you don't have the experience to solve, don't you? The…

It depends. There can be an upside to quitting.

Re: Couples therapy for startup co-founders

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If you need therapy with your business partner, cut your losses and move on.

If you need therapy with your partner, cut your losses and move on.

You're thinking in extremes... There are many people who could benefit from therapy, mediated conversation, or dispute resolution.
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