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August 6, 2015
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This article originally appeared in the Huffington Post.
Over the past five years, I’ve interviewed thousands of Silicon Valley entrepreneurs looking for co-founders. I’ve connected many of them who then went on to create thriving businesses. Among others, I’ve matched the brilliant pair who built the social platform Refresh, which LinkedIn acquired earlier this year.
I’ve learned a lot from these interviews and from my own experience about what matters when looking for a co-founder.
It boils down to:
• Complementary skills and interests,
• Similar appetite for risk, and
• Compatible communication & control style.
Sounds so simple!
Turns out that finding a co-founder is harder than getting into Stanford (admission rate: 5%).
To help you increase your odds, I’ve created a 10-question quiz that you can take and ask any potential co-founder to take. Click here to take it.
SC Moatti is a technology visionary, entrepreneur and investor.
She is the founding partner of Mighty Capital, a Silicon Valley venture capital firm, and Products That Count, one of the largest communities of product managers, leaders and founders in the world.
Previously, she built products that billions of people use at Facebook, Nokia and Electronic Arts. She also serves on boards of both public and private companies, including mobile technology giant Opera Software (OPERA:Oslo).
An award-winning bestselling author, Moatti frequently gives keynotes on business and technology, and has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, the Harvard Business Review, and on NPR. She lectures at Stanford Graduate School of Business, where she earned her MBA and has a Master of Science in electrical engineering.
Andrew Chen, one of Uber’s top executives, called SC “a genius at making mobile products people love.”
For more information, visit scmoatti.com.
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