The best co-founder is someone you've already worked with and trust. Convincing should be pretty easy: you should both be excited about solving that one problem. If you are not brainstorming non-stop and messaging each other at all kinds of weird times, you don't have a co-founder.
+1 on this. The same thing happened with me and my Co-Founder(s).
I met Andrew (my co-founder) through some school friends and hired him when I was running my team at a digital agency (I was 18 he was 16) after 4 years of building platforms together we moved on and setup on our own. Feels like my brother a lot of the time and that's what makes it easy. The ability to be straight with each other when things don't work out but also have a mature relationship where you know where business is and that it doesn't compromise your friendship.
A mutual friend introduced us, he was really enthusiastic about building a project together (side project, not full startup for now).
We have complimentary skills (he's more of a PM and business guy). I think I was the hard one to convince :P . I've actually let him down, I'm not pushing as hard as we can and it's stuck at the side project stage (need 50 to 200 more dev hours and I'm the dev).
He actually has beta testers lined up (and willing to pay).
Worked at the same company. Watched his workflow, built tools to speed it up. Years later, started a company around the same concept. Sold to a bigger company and spend our time moving that forward. Hit it off right away and are like brothers now.
very nice. what were you guys developing? were you working on similar "tools" until you started the company, or was it one off idea that you grew into a company years later?
Hired him as a temporary consultant with industry experience to help me build my startup. Things went well and at some point it became clear I had a cofounder.
[+] [-] alain94040|9 years ago|reply
[0] http://foundrs.com/find-a-cofounder
[+] [-] thatgerhard|9 years ago|reply
We started doing freelance projects together and about 5 years ago we decided to quit our jobs and do this full time.
We're still at it :)
At this point we're more like brothers than business partners. Best decision ever.
[+] [-] jordz|9 years ago|reply
I met Andrew (my co-founder) through some school friends and hired him when I was running my team at a digital agency (I was 18 he was 16) after 4 years of building platforms together we moved on and setup on our own. Feels like my brother a lot of the time and that's what makes it easy. The ability to be straight with each other when things don't work out but also have a mature relationship where you know where business is and that it doesn't compromise your friendship.
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We have complimentary skills (he's more of a PM and business guy). I think I was the hard one to convince :P . I've actually let him down, I'm not pushing as hard as we can and it's stuck at the side project stage (need 50 to 200 more dev hours and I'm the dev).
He actually has beta testers lined up (and willing to pay).
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