http://startitup.indieword.com/person/5230 Wed, 02 May 2007 22:00:22 GMT Comments by Zachary Schenkler <p>Hi Prashant,<br />My partner and I started our own journey about a little over a year ago and we are scheduled to launch the beta in 2 weeks. I believe that you must closely consider 2 main aspects to any co-founder relationship.</p> <p>1) Skill sets: How do you create synergy with each other, how does your experience and skill sets compliment one another. For example, you are a software engineer that might understand a bit about marketing, ideally you should find someone who is a marketing expert that knows a little about software engineering. Also the passion, mutual respect, mutual flexibility in the decision making process and dedication will be factored into this.<br />2) Relationship: It is apparent that you should have a great working relationship with your co-founder and partner, but what about your personal lives. You will be pouring your time, imagination, frustration and jubilation into your dreams, if you cannot share this and know your partners family and personal life (to some degree of course) then how can you truly communicate effectively.</p> <p>My partner and I talked 3 days a week for the first 6 months before meeting, we then got together each week for the next 3 months and eventually we traveled to India and lived in the same apartment for 3 months. Needless to say this is unusual, but it formed a bond and a mutual dedication that has served us well in the hardest of moments.</p> <p>Feel free to contact me if you would like to dicsuss further.<br />Zach</p> http://startitup.indieword.com/view/question-of-the-day13#content_7286 http://startitup.indieword.com/view/question-of-the-day13#content_7286 Wed, 02 May 2007 22:00:22 GMT Zachary Schenkler