2013 there was a big flood in Germany. I was a victim and lost a lot of my stuff. I instantly wrote a simple and fast HTML-app to coordinate all those thousands of volunteering flood-helpers. The city and the university who tried to organize all volunteering citizens officially communicated the tool in press releases and on their websites. Max, my todays co-founder wrote an e-mail and asked if he could help...
For me, AngelList was what allowed us to find each other. https://angel.co/
How did angelist help?
I worked a contract at a company. Met my cofounder there. My contract ended. We began working on a thing.
I met a cofounder while interviewing potential customers during the early validation, pre MVP. His questions were smart, he knew the market and has been a founder before. Right after the meeting, I called my other cofounder and told her we should setup a meeting and get him onboard.
I met my cofounder Alexander in university hostel. We lived in the same block but different rooms =)
Now we are building service for ecommerce
http://mydataprovider.com/
This is extremely timely for me. I met my co-founder 10 years ago, and we got on super well and made a great match. She had to bail for personal reasons, and now I face the decision of whether to continue solo, find another cofounder, or fold up shop.
It is known thay many startup guys are single. And me and my cofounder, for our no longer existing startup, met in a place whith a group of other guys. All of us were going to meet one woman. For private affairs. Its a strange situation but it happens.
She was my teacher’s sister, we became friends in 2004. Stayed in touch, started first startup in 2010, later started working again on a small project in 2011, which eventually became our current startup Markhor. Got married together in 2015!
Slept 20 ft away from each other at a hacker hostel in SF.