Finding A Technical Cofounder

Cheat Sheet

Don’t spend your time looking for a technical co-founder, it’s not an efficient use of your time. Instead, either:

1. Learn to code

  1. Step needing to rely on others for execution
  2. Meet technical people
  3. Managing technical people becomes way easier

2. Get an external team

  1. Don’t offer equity
  2. Weekly useful versions of the product
  3. Pay weekly or hourly
  4. A successful project doesn’t ‘end’
  5. Peanuts ==> Monkeys

3. Avoid a ‘tech play’

  1. Use white-labeled ‘off the shelf’ services where available
  2. Fake your back-end: launch with only a pretty design, do hard work manually
  3. License the tech from a company in a different vertical or geographic location

4. Other takeaways:

  1. No NDAs
  2. Get a technical advisor
  3. Ask for advice, not employment
  4. Co-founders are looking for competence and traction

Source: alexeymk.com
  1. ludovicbourgoin posted this
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