How to find a co-founder for your start-up for a successful journey?

There are lot of factors to consider for, to make a start-up a success. Finding a good co-founder or team is without the doubt one of the most important factor.

I have been an entrepreneur who made a lot of mistakes and learnt from lot of other people from different walks of life

Awareness

To find a co-founder, you must have at least some clarities about following things:

• What is your and business vision and mission?
• What are your strengths and weaknesses?
• What skills and commitment are you looking for from your co-founder/team? (Time, Money, Network, Experience, Skills etc)
• What does the potential co-founder/team want?
• Where would they be working/staying/going right now?
• How can they be reached/contacted? (LinkedIn message, email, call, their website, platforms like co-founder's lab, f6s etc)
• What can you offer them to bring them onboard?
• Materials to show them or speech to convey all about the current status of the journey/business

Platforms to find those people

1. LinkedIn
2. Instagram
3. Bumble
4. Meetup / Community groups / events (e.g: Startup weekend)
5. Co-founders lab
6. F6s

Mistake to avoid

Entrepreneurs are also human so they also make mistakes, but one of the traits of successful entrepreneur is they learn from others people mistake and knowledge.

1. Not doing the first step of getting Aware properly.
2. Hurrying to onboard a co-founder without properly knowing and vetting them.
3. Blindly Trusting their words, resume or LinkedIn (Trust but verify, try to get practical if possible and check things which are harder to lie)
4. Thinking there is a perfect co-founder somewhere other there (No one is perfect)
5. Thinking only about the co-founder and ignoring about the consultants and mentors. (People have a hard time saying no if someone ask for help unless they are super busy, you would be surprised to see how easy and cost-effective it is to find and get support of an expert or a mentor)
6. Not being clear or lying from the start.
7. Fearing of business idea getting copied (Idea inherently is worthless unless you can execute well, you already know a lot of successful idea)

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We wish you best of luck for the upcoming journey.

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