Hello, i’m looking for some advice on where to find a technical co-founder. I’m very much in the beginning stages of my startup and have the initial concept and want to finish my MVP to fully validate my idea. I know that YC has said that the best people to start a startup with are people you have known for a which, like school/college or university friends. But! if you don’t have anyone in mind that would be a great fit within your own network, where have others gone to find cofounders? I have heard stories of cold contacting people on Linkedin and also YC’s co-founder matching. I would love heard other people stories and advice. My startup is in the PropTech space. Also, I reside in Australia. Thanks!
Have done it. No, not a matching thing.
Do all the work involved in a startup that you can do. Create the value:
It’s VERY valid that a capable engineer is not going to just join you to try, doing all the heavy lifting they do on some promise that you will. What are you waiting on?? Do it.
You do NOT need the app, solution, product, to start. Whomever keeps saying that is either lying, an idiot, or selling you something.
When prove and establish demand for something, what you’re doing is creating value and de-risking something in which someone else wants to solve.
Doing that work, you create publicly, evidence that people want you to fix their problem … And that signals to that technical cofounder not just that you want to try, but that if they work with you, they’ll succeed in solving the problem they want to solve.
You don’t find that person through matching. Who has the time to meet all those people for a shot at a match?? You find that person because YOU have clearly established that you’re the person to work with on said thing – they’ll gravitate to you if you do it right/well.
Thank you. I needed to hear this, valuable advice.
Yeah, only users validate ideas.
What you said is very clarifying for me. Its like selling the company and showing that you are not just “cofounding” with him which means he make it all. You have already made your side of the trade