Seven Simple Co-Founder Insights. Important Questions Startup Co-Founders Should Ask Each Other

The selection, care and feeding of a co-founder (or co-founders) is one of the key determinants of long-term success in a startup. Lots of startups have issues like a lack of market, technology challenges, distribution challenges, etc. But, a lot of these can be addressed with a great founding team (just about all startups tweak their model in order to address challenges along the way). But, if you have the wrong co-founders (or none at all), that’s a hard problem to get over.

#2: Make sure at least one of the founders can build the product.

#3) Make sure at least one of you can sell.

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Important Questions Startup Co-Founders Should Ask Each Other

One thing I have learned in my experience with startups is that if you are not careful, you are as likely to experience as many challenges with your co-founder(s) as you are with the business itself.

The following are some of the most important questions that should be resolved as early in the process as possible. In most cases, these issues only get more difficult over time.

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