Find Co-Founders, Don't Get Screwed

I have seen so many sites related to finding a cofounder. In my opinion, there's an oversupply of them.<p>I know a lot of people looking for a cofounder but most of them are non-engineers.<p>My guess is a lot of these sites may have a lot of seekers but very few actually find one. It's a like a dating site where it's mostly men.

I would want to hear what a lawyer said about these agreements before using them. Misincorporating yourself can be disastrously hard to fix, and this could have the same problems. It's better to sign nothing than to sign the wrong thing.

I think that people just climb in the bandwagon of finding someone to make their product with without first asking themselves if it is really necessary to do so at this time and if the other person really is needed.<p>If you have an idea, please develop as far as you can alone while you're able to do so within your means. Hell anyone can make a prototype in Omnigraffle or Keynote to later pitch the idea. There are lot's of things a non tech founder can do before requiring a cofounder and vice versa. Hopefully while doing so you'll find a person that's a good fit and whom you can trust and respect. And of course, even then create vesting agreements for either a viable but "not too soon" time or based on goals and acomplishments.

Hmm given all the discussion about friendship being of utmost importance for cofounders (particularly in the case of YC), do people think this would work?

that article makes it sound like immediately distributing equity is super important. having a rough idea of the pie sizes is probably a good idea, but 1 month vesting like the site says? no way! honestly, at this point i wouldn't start anything without a one year cliff for all cofounders (including me) anymore.<p>if there's a net positive return on kicking you within the first year, you're either not pulling your weight or your cofounders are acting irrational and will kill the company anyway.

As a developer id rather give up 3 percent of equity, of something worth nothing at the time, than pay $9.99 per month. Key to any start-up without investors is to keep regular costs down.<p>foundrs.com is not the end all of incorporation, it seems to have nothing for "assets". Who owns the code? Author or Company. Who owns the domain? Registrar or Company?

i think at this point we need someone to build a site that aggregates all these cofounder finding sites.