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Results from where Co-Founder met and their happiness

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Post by tropchan »

A couple days ago I asked the HN community to fill out a form with 5 questions about where they met their co-founder. I promised to share the results.

Although it only got 8 responses, I wanted to hold true to my word. Interestingly the two startup that had zero funding the founder knew each other less than an year before launching their startup.

I'd love to do deeper analysis. If you want to help, please answer 5 questions in less that 1 min: https://sectorscape.typeform.com/to/U5lQOM

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#2

Post by pariya »

Quick note- your survey assumes that each startup has only two co-founders, therefore, your results may be skewed by responses like the one I just submitted. I met my non-tech cofounder ("cofounder2") in first grade, but our tech cofounder ("cofounder3") I've known for less than a year. However, cofounder2 has known cofounder3 for a few years... I hope you post your findings, I'd love to see what everybody responds.

Re: Results from where Co-Founder met and their happiness

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Post by tropchan »

pariya wrote: post #2

Quick note- your survey assumes that each startup has only two co-founders, therefore, your results may be skewed by responses like the one I just submitted. I met my non-tech cofounder ("cofounder2") in first grade, but our tech cofounder ("cofounder3") I've known for less than a year. However, cofounder2 has known cofounder3 for a few years... I hope you post your findings, I'd love to see what everybody responds.

Very true, I should have thought this through better. I'll update you on it. The data is unless without a decent number of submissions unfortunately:(

Re: Results from where Co-Founder met and their happiness

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Post by tropchan »

tropchan wrote: post #3
pariya wrote: post #2

Quick note- your survey assumes that each startup has only two co-founders, therefore, your results may be skewed by responses like the one I just submitted. I met my non-tech cofounder ("cofounder2") in first grade, but our tech cofounder ("cofounder3") I've known for less than a year. However, cofounder2 has known cofounder3 for a few years... I hope you post your findings, I'd love to see what everybody responds.

Very true, I should have thought this through better. I'll update you on it. The data is unless without a decent number of submissions unfortunately:(

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Re: Results from where Co-Founder met and their happiness

#5

Post by tropchan »

Update: 13 total submissions. All Founders that had rated their partnership 1, 2, or 3 stars knew each other less than 1 year. All founders that knew each other 5+ years had 5 star ratings. Funding does not seem correlated with co-founder happiness. The response rate was 7 technical founders and 6 non-technical founders. This data would make me hypothesize that the best partnership is between people that are long-time friends that have trust. I'd love to do a bigger study one day. Hope this helps! Thanks to everyone that contributed
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