You have a great idea for a startup. The problem is you can’t execute your plan without a co-founder, and you don’t know who your co-founder should be. Worse yet, you don’t even know how to find your co-founder.
I’ll walk you through the five-step process I followed to find my co-founders. I’ll explain why it worked, and how you can leverage this process to build your team.
The first step in the process is:
1. Build a list of every contact you know.
When I started my company, I knew that the most important person I needed to find was a CTO or VP Engineering. I wouldn’t be able to raise money without finding this person. And I wouldn’t be able to execute my plan without this person.
At the same time, I also knew that I was going to have recruit other people, primarily engineers, over time to build out my team. So, my thought process was to identify and recruit as many people as possible that could help my company, even if they wouldn’t be joining my company immediately.
In other words, you might only have one or two co-founders, but why not line up people that you will be hiring one year from now as well?
That’s why I started with a list of all the people I knew. The list contained…
