How Do I Know You Are Mr. Right Co-Founder?
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How Do I Know You Are Mr. Right Co-Founder?
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#2The last Mr. Co-founder I had was a sham for the very reasons mentioned here. All talk, very little output with a side of excuses at every sit-down. I was too young and naive at the time to realize what we had was less of a partnership and more of an "I'll treat you like someone I found on canYOUbuildthisforme.com." Definitely a good thing to not be impressed by talk. Not every person who can administer a server can write code to run on that server. Wish I'd known that back then. Lessons learned. :)
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#3because, y'know, why would anybody ever consider a female co-founder?
it's a very good article, but i sure wish he had picked a different title.
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#4because, y'know, why would anybody ever consider a female co-founder? it's a very good article, but i sure wish he had picked a different title.
Once in a while, I write my blogs using "she" for the entrepreneur. That's how I try to balance things out.
If you know of a non-pedantic way to write and be gender neutral, I'm interested. "He/she" is really annoying to read. I sometimes use "their" as a replacement for "his or her", although it's not grammatically correct. Any better ideas?
Maybe a legal disclaimer at the end of the blog stating that any use of "he" can be replaced by "she" (kind of like a a great constitutional amendment to pass).
PS: note that the use of "Mr. Right" seems to imply that the original founder is a woman, so that startup would be 50/50, not bad considering today's reality.
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#5The last Mr. Co-founder I had was a sham for the very reasons mentioned here. All talk, very little output with a side of excuses at every sit-down. I was too young and naive at the time to realize what we had was less of a partnership and more of an "I'll treat you like someone I found on canYOUbuildthisforme.com." Definitely a good thing to not be impressed by talk. Not every person who can administer a server can…
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#6The last Mr. Co-founder I had was a sham for the very reasons mentioned here. All talk, very little output with a side of excuses at every sit-down. I was too young and naive at the time to realize what we had was less of a partnership and more of an "I'll treat you like someone I found on canYOUbuildthisforme.com." Definitely a good thing to not be impressed by talk. Not every person who can administer a server can…
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#7because, y'know, why would anybody ever consider a female co-founder? it's a very good article, but i sure wish he had picked a different title.
I don't think it's sending that message at all. And if the title of a few blog posts encourage you not to seek out a woman as a co-founder, should you really running anything anyway?
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#9The last Mr. Co-founder I had was a sham for the very reasons mentioned here. All talk, very little output with a side of excuses at every sit-down. I was too young and naive at the time to realize what we had was less of a partnership and more of an "I'll treat you like someone I found on canYOUbuildthisforme.com." Definitely a good thing to not be impressed by talk. Not every person who can administer a server can…
One of the lessons I've learned in life is that there are some people that will impress you very much when you first meet them. They will talk a lot about how much they're doing and what's going on for them and it will sound very impressive.
After knowing them for a while I start to see that they are just full of it. This has happened multiple times that I find there is a strong inverse correlation between the amount of talk someone does and the amount they actually get done.