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Common wisdom is that cofounders should be sought early on. However, this is not the only approach. The ideal cofounder is a socially awkward genius, a proverbial Wozniak. He is capable of long hours, engineering feats and brilliant work. Such a man is hard to seduce, by traditional means. So, finding your Woz is one problem. An even trickier problem is ensnaring him. This requires some craftiness. One thing to avoid…
What the fuck am I reading?
My Internet safety helmet snapped shut after that line.
Common wisdom is that cofounders should be sought early on. However, this is not the only approach. The ideal cofounder is a socially awkward genius, a proverbial Wozniak. He is capable of long hours, engineering feats and brilliant work. Such a man is hard to seduce, by traditional means. So, finding your Woz is one problem. An even trickier problem is ensnaring him. This requires some craftiness. One thing to avoid…
Whoha, that escalated quickly...
Great art must start with the desire for that which is undeserved, persevere through an obsession with beauty and overcome a crisis of faith. The proverbial Wozniak is a warrior-poet. A follower of the the ways of elegance, rice-planting and dance. A Master of Sword, Pen and brush. He does not carry a second sword as an homage to his forebears, but as a tribute to forgotten masters who started this tradition keeping in equal measure the art of carrying and wielding his blades.
The title and content of this post seem to address vastly different subjects. Nowhere in the article does it attempt to address the task of "finding the right co-founders." I must admit, I was a bit let down...
The title and content of this post seem to address vastly different subjects. Nowhere in the article does it attempt to address the task of "finding the right co-founders." I must admit, I was a bit let down...
Agreed. It had more to do with determining the skill sets required for a successful founding team. Which is only one step. The next (and probably much harder step) is finding people WITH these skills that are willing to work together on a startup.
"Co-founders Skills are the First Derivative of the Business Model Canvas" My Internet safety helmet snapped shut after that line.
The point the article is making is a corollary of this. You want to choose co-founders that are linearly-independent in skill-space and maximize the magnitude of each of the desired components over time. Over a large enough interval, this is the same as optimizing on the first derivative of skill, or maximizing in skill-learning space (preferring higher values at t=0, ceteris paribus).
Common wisdom is that cofounders should be sought early on. However, this is not the only approach. The ideal cofounder is a socially awkward genius, a proverbial Wozniak. He is capable of long hours, engineering feats and brilliant work. Such a man is hard to seduce, by traditional means. So, finding your Woz is one problem. An even trickier problem is ensnaring him. This requires some craftiness. One thing to avoid…
Common wisdom is that cofounders should be sought early on. However, this is not the only approach. The ideal cofounder is a socially awkward genius, a proverbial Wozniak. He is capable of long hours, engineering feats and brilliant work. Such a man is hard to seduce, by traditional means. So, finding your Woz is one problem. An even trickier problem is ensnaring him. This requires some craftiness. One thing to avoid…
I'm sold