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Adding co-founders later on can cause them to think that it's not their company. However, doing things together in the earliest stages will help people step up when they go through hard times.
Figure out the co-founder first before you raise money or come up with the next idea, then you can truly have collective ownership as you do things together.
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When co-founders cannot have honest disagreements and have not had a real conversation in a long time, there might come a time when a breakup is inevitable.
The CEO's job is now not how to repair the relationship but how to separate most effectively and least destructively. It is best not t...
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It's vital to keep decisions in writing as we seldom remember things the way they went down.
It could be tough to handle disagreements or wrong actions after the fact if you did not write it down. It's clumsy to talk about, for example, who gets what percentage of the company.
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Every relationship has ebbs and flows. When you disagree, you don't have to come to a resolution. Instead, you can pause for a while.
Understand how your co-founder deals with stress. Some people deal with stress by striking out, and some by retreating. If you understand your co-founder, yo...
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Whatever skills a co-founder has when they join the company are not the only skills they'll ever have.
You learn also everything on the job, so it's better to work with someone you know and like and learn together than someone you don't know.
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Choosing a co-founder is a crucial decision at the start of every company - one that's very hard to correct. You should team up with someone that has complementary skills and with whom you share a prehistory.
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