All of our Co-founder relationship articles

Starting Up

The Founder Dating Playbook – Here’s the Process I Used to Find My Co-Founder

Gloria Lin opens up about her pre-founder journey, from how to find a co-founder and early conversations, to the set of 50 questions she prototyped to team up on a startup idea.

Starting Up

The Inside Story of How This Startup Turned a 216-Word Pitch Email into a $2.6 Billion Acquisition

Looker went from a single customer to more than 1700, from a small, scrappy team in Santa Cruz to a 700-person company spanning eight offices around the globe. Now on the heels of its acquisition by Google, co-founders Lloyd Tabb and Ben Porterfield, CEO Frank Bien, and first investor Bill Trenchard

Management

Founder Exposed: Opening Up About Startup Failures and Vulnerability

Jeff Wald knows firsthand that behind every startup success story is a stack of seldom discussed defeats. The investor and three-time founder opens up about why leaders should embrace vulnerability, and offers tools for extracting lessons from failure and getting back in the game.

Management

A Taxonomy of Troublemakers for Those Navigating Difficult Colleagues

Disruptive technology is one thing. Disruptive co-workers are another. Here, Dr. Jody Foster classifies the types of colleagues whom others find difficult — and advises how to navigate working with them.

Management

Reddit and Facebook Veteran On How to Troubleshoot Troublemakers

Bethanye Blount shares her hard-earned tips on how to detect and debug troublemakers.

Management

How to Win as a First-Time Founder, a Drew Houston Manifesto

Dropbox CEO Drew Houston shares his strategy for getting up to speed fast to succeed as a novice founder.

Starting Up

Find the Best Lawyer for Your Startup with This Off-the-Record Advice

Ken Callander’s helps all kinds of startups work with their lawyers. Here he shares secrets for increasing productivity and cutting costs.

Starting Up

Looking for Love in All The Wrong Places - How to Find a Co-founder

Steve Blank explains how entrepreneurs can use a tool called the Business Model Canvas to find the ideal co-founder for their startup.

Management

The 30 Best Pieces of Advice for Entrepreneurs in 2014

A comprehensive list of the top pieces of advice we heard in 2014 from people who are the very best at what they do.