So You Have A Great Idea For A Startup - Now You Need a Partner
You’re sitting at your office, working idly through the day, when an epiphany hits you. The most genius idea for a business pops into your head!
To start a new project, we must begin to analyze factors with which we play: The idea itself, time we can invest, experience in the sector, the capital…The list is huge, and everyone we’ve dived into the world of startups knows it’s not an easy job.
The most important thing is passion and dedication, that’s for sure, but sometimes we need other points of view, a good reason to partner up on a project is because the other person probably has skills that you don’t have. So you rarely accomplish great things alone!
That’s why you need a co-founder/co-founders of the project, to obtain several benefits :
Mitigating the risk:
Going it alone will certainly give you full autonomy and control of your business but having a single-founder is a potential problem for investors. Having a co-founder gives a guarantee that there is someone to turn to if something happens to the individual.
Strategic sounding board:
Making big decisions when starting and running a business can have a big impact on the growth of a business. This impact can help or hinder the business, so having someone to exchange ideas with can help give you confidence in your superficial decisions or flaws that you may not have thought of.
Division of responsibility and costs:
Having a co-founder helps relieve stress, multiple sources of cash flow, very common when resources are limited. A co-founder can also provide the missing piece in the company puzzle which speeds up the project’s launch time.
But finding the right co-founder is not an easy task, and so there are platforms, like starthawk.io, that help with the task.
This is a website where they use a search algorithm to make finding a match as easy as possible. They have their own messaging system to communicate to the interested parties, and filters to improve the search aim.
All we have to do is register and define our project so that the pairing process begins, as simple as that.
