A Hacker's Journey To Find A Co-Founder

Great post, and I definitely empathize with your struggle. Finding a good co-founder is damn hard, whether he's technical or business. As someone who has been in those shoes before (but wearing the business hat looking for a technical co-founder), I have found it at least as hard, if not harder, to find good technical co-founders.

I think a business person who is unwilling to learn any amount of coding, especially on the front-end, or who is uninterested in product development like UX, customer development, etc, has no business doing a startup -- and you shouldn't waste your time on them either.

From the business founder's perspective, I have always found a couple posts I've read from other business founders pretty inspiring, and I think they ring true for what any good business co-founder should bring to the table. The next time a business founder reaches out to you looking for a technical co-founder, maybe you can point him to these articles and say, "do this first" and then we'll talk.

Best of luck to you, and keep pushing at it!

http://www.humbledmba.com/please-please-please-stop-asking-h...

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2332349

This article nicely summarizes the pains of finding a co-founder. I will definitely share this with others in the same boat. I believe the saying goes, "you will find someone when you stop looking".

I have just started looking for a co-founder and I think the hard part is finding someone that has the same level of passion and enthusiasm to solve the problem I am trying (in educational space). I strongly believe that only someone with that strong passion could possibly endure all the effort required to get a startup going somewhere.

BTW, what is your startup about?

Yes, it's sad that the rare people we know that we actually WANT to work with, usually won't do it due to the risks involved.