For my own research purposes I'm interested to hear it from your perspective (as a programmer) what would you want a potential co-founder to bring to the table if they had a start-up idea?
I know this isn't an easy decision and shouldn't be taken lightly. What would be your reservations stopping you from partnering with them?
#looking-for-cofounder
To add to @louisswiss answer, some of my own critical points:
Entirely my own opinions, but if just one of them helps anyone out, I'm happy.
Best of luck.
Thanks, @Skullclown this gives me a lot of insight. Lots of these points I guessed would be the case but nice to hear them from someone else.
Hi Elliott,
Interesting question. It's something I've been thinking about a lot recently as well.
Here's a tool I put together which touches on the things you need to talk about when trying to find a great cofounder. I think some of that could be helpful for you.
It's a wonderful tools, thanks for sharing @louisswiss!
Will definitely share it.
Awesome tool @louisswiss 👏🏾 Thanks for sharing!
Looks great I'm going through it now!
To add up on the other comments:
I don't want my co-founder to be technically competent, it's my job, I'm (mainly) technical. However, I would expect my co-founder to know a minimum about software project management: Agile, Lean, Devops, theory of constraint and all this good stuff. Knowledge work and taylorism are not necessarily compatible.
Minimum of knowledge about the market we want to target and having past experience and connections in it.
Being able to iterate through ideas quickly: we try, it doesn't work, we try something else. We are not our ideas. We are not our projects. We don't let go a part of ourselves when we discard them.
Knowing how to argue, with concrete arguments and data. Pushing ideas 'cause "I feel in command" is not good. It sounds obvious but most of the time people do it without even knowing it.
In general, good communication skills is key I think.
I'd choose the co-founder having marketing skills.
Deep, deep, deep, deep pockets. 😉