Cofounder Courtship: How to Find the Right Mate for Your Startup.

Do you need a cofounder?

1️⃣ How could a cofounder balance your skills and experience? 

2️⃣ Is domain expertise critical for your venture?

3️⃣ Most importantly, do you value partnership, shared risk, and collaboration with others?

The Cofounder Courtship:

1️⃣ Conduct a listening tour by meeting other startup cofounders. 

2️⃣ Write a cofounder job description and include experience, skills, and the ideal softer characteristics you seek in this person.

3️⃣ Try to meet at least 6 people at once. 

4️⃣ Test the relationship beyond coffee chats and dinners.

5️⃣ Have vulnerable conversations. 

6️⃣ Meet each other’s partners/families/colleagues. 

So the loss of a founder break-up would have bigger repercussions. They met as their girlfriends (now wives)  were best friends.

Also I suggest doing personality assessments to see how your profiles match/mismatch.)