Co-Founders: They're A Wonderful Thing. Indulge at Your Own Risk.

Re:Co-Founders: They're A Wonderful Thing. Indulge at Your O... by MatthewB on Thursday December 06, 2012 @09:35PM (#4885195)

I've been thinking this as well.

However, if you don't have any siblings and none of your very old friends know anything about technology/startups, you're kind of stuck between a rock and a hard place. (me)

My old friends are really smart and I'd love to work with them, but when I try to talk to them about doing a startup, they look at my like I'm nuts.

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Re:Co-Founders: They're A Wonderful Thing. Indulge at Your O... by OafTobark on Friday December 07, 2012 @12:30AM (#4885629)

Make new friends. Great friendships are not base on how long or how well you've known a person, but how well you connect with another. That can bloom amongst new friendship with a little bit of time as well.

I speak from experience. I was in a similar boat. All my closest friends growing up were the wrong fit for doing anything entrepreneurial much less a startup. A friend I met through another mutual friend but rarely talked to turned out to be one of my closest friend and became my previous cofounder. It worked out great.

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