How did you find your co-founder? [and where to look for?] 🙂
Once I asked What do you consider when choosing the right co-founder.
But I have never asked where to find them...
That's why I would like to hear your "How we met story."
Additional questions:
What are the best places/communities to find a co-founder(s)?
Is it good to co-found with relatives/long-term friends, or is it better to co-found with a completely new person in your life?
I searched for a few communities and found these:
CofoundersLab
Reddit/r/cofounder
YC Co-founder Matching/Feel free to share more if you know about some./
[This piece of Forum was inspired by the post of @james_hawkins3 from @PostHog published this week.]
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Artefact
I found my co-founders @royesegal and @marc__milberg on YC's cofounder match program.
In my opinion, it’s less about who and more about how you and your co-founder(s) work together. Friends or strangers, what matters is trust, aligned vision, and handling conflict well.
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@royesegal @marc__milberg @russell_lowry Pretty cool. Have you seen each other in person before? Or at all?
Artefact
I haven't met either in person, but Marc and Roye met up in NYC a few months back. Some day soon we'll all get together in person! It's so easy to work together virtually these days, but it's hard to beat in-person collaboration.
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@russell_lowry I hope that you will see each other soon. I saw the guy I collaborate with (a client) for the very first time in person after almost 3 years of our work. 😅 (Both in a totally different country where we are based normally.)
Artefact
@busmark_w_nika Wow that's impressive! That's a long time to go without meeting in person. Glad you were able to do that, considering you're in different countries.
@royesegal @marc__milberg @russell_lowry Thanks @russell_lowry ! I didn't know this website exist, this is really precious !
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@royesegal @marc__milberg @russell_lowry @jean_willame Hopefully, you will find here a good match! :)
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I'm so dropping an ear here. 👂🏻
Okay, both ears. 👂🏻👂🏻
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@sophiaatdola Do you have co-founders too? :)
@sophiaatdola Dropping two ears, too. 👂🏻👂🏻
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@aurelia_b Interesting to see a national level of this approach. I found something similar for the Netherlands, too: https://findyourcofounder.nl/
looking for a co-founder by the way, drop me dm
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@nataliia_makota Hey Nataliia! :) can you specify what type of co-founder? Like dev, marketer or? :)
I would say I'm lucky to know my co-founder @titouan_de_dain from real life, but if it wasn't the case, I would definitely be close to startup communities in my city ! My take is that people working at startups are more likely to become entrepreneurs themselves and are mostly tech curious, especially in software development :)
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@titouan_de_dain @jean_willame From which city are you? Because if you are from some metropolitan city, it will be easier for you than for me :D (My town is so small that we know each other very well here). If there would be a possible co-founder, I would probably have one from my town :D
@titouan_de_dain @busmark_w_nika Ah yes, we've been friends for 10 years, we also lived in a small town in France, I guess that's why I say it's mostly luck ahah. Even if your city is small you might find your best co-founder :)
It's funny how "Co-founder" has been finding it's way to my algorithm lately. I am launching in the next couple months and the internet-Gods have obviously been suggesting I find one.
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@yakuraapp What type of co-founder are you looking for? 👀
@busmark_w_nika Our application is like Steam (no affiliation), but for Webapps and software. Online store, desktop SDK, library, the whole bit. A cofounder with a large network of SaaS companies to tap into would be hugely beneficial. Someone who could help fill up our store, as that's our blocker right now, holding us up for launch. Thanks for following up :)
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@yakuraapp So are you looking for Sales, right? :)
In China, we primarily connect with potential partners through mutual introductions by friends or via platforms like Xiaohongshu.
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@gin_6078 Don't you use WeChat for that as well?
@busmark_w_nika Yes, we also join many WeChat groups for developers, where there are quite a few co-founders as well.
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@gin_6078 I downloaded the app only once and liked how I shook with the phone ,and it connected me with someone! :D That was a neat move.
@busmark_w_nika Haha, the "Shake" feature was indeed a standout function of WeChat at the time!