I'm a grad student at Stanford looking for a cofounder but haven't had any luck yet. All my friends are extremely busy working in lab. Should we organize some kind of a meetup?
How did you find your cofounder?
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Re: How did you find your cofounder?
#2On Craigslist. I put an ad up about my current company and that I was looking for a cofounder. I was contacted by two people. I contacted the first, but he never messaged me back. I corresponded with the second for a bit, and after a few emails we realized we had met before at a hacker party called Super Happy Dev House. We met for lunch, and the rest is history.
You should come to the next Devhouse http://superhappydevhouse.org/SuperHappyDevHouse21. It's on Nov 10th in SF.
Re: How did you find your cofounder?
#3I strongly recommend finding a friend you've known for a while who's willing to start a startup with you. You want to have more holding you together than just the company. Isn't there someone you know from college?
Re: How did you find your cofounder?
#4I recommend homeless shelters. They're surprisingly good hackers and are willing to work for very little equity.
Re: How did you find your cofounder?
#5Have you got a product idea? If so then start building something right-away and talking to people about it -- promote it, attend barcamps, democamps, etc.. Eventually you will find someone who believes in it and will want to work with you on it and refine it, i.e. a co-founder.
My present founding team consists of people I knew, trusted and was friends with prior to starting work on my product. But they did not start working with me at the same time I started out.
Re: How did you find your cofounder?
#6I found my cofounder (or more accurately, he found me) via weekly video game sessions in college. Since our startup deals with games, it seemed like a natural fit.
More broadly speaking, I suggest starting with "what kind of person do I need?" and go from there. For example, if your idea is to build a social networking site for environmentalists, I would see if I had any friends studying Environmental Science. Or if you're a business guy in need of a coder, I would hang around the Computer Science department.
Re: How did you find your cofounder?
#7I recommend homeless shelters. They're surprisingly good hackers and are willing to work for very little equity.
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Re: How did you find your cofounder?
#8I strongly recommend finding a friend you've known for a while who's willing to start a startup with you. You want to have more holding you together than just the company. Isn't there someone you know from college?
Yeah, maybe I should give this a shot. The problem is that almost all of my college friends are also in grad school, so it would take some serious convincing....if only we didn't love science so much...
Re: How did you find your cofounder?
#9In a chat room, eight years ago. Full story here:
http://www.dnjournal.com/cover/2007/may.htm
Cheers
Sahar
http://www.conceptualist.com
Re: How did you find your cofounder?
#10I strongly recommend finding a friend you've known for a while who's willing to start a startup with you. You want to have more holding you together than just the company. Isn't there someone you know from college?
Yeah, maybe I should give this a shot. The problem is that almost all of my college friends are also in grad school, so it would take some serious convincing....if only we didn't love science so much...
You could wait a couple years, when it's a good bet that 90% of your college friends will want to leave grad school. They'll take much less convincing then.