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.
Couples therapy for startup co-founders
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#12Is “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
#13If you need therapy with your business partner, cut your losses and move on.
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#14If you need therapy with your business partner, cut your losses and move on.
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#15My 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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#16Consulting like this can go along way towards bridging those differences to build a stronger collaboration between partners.
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#17If you need therapy with your business partner, cut your losses and move on.
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#18Is “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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#19Earlier quoted context omitted.
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…