I’m building a gamified product discovery platform and I’m looking for a co-founder, but many of the cofounders I meet try to pouch me for their own startup ideas and of the ones that are interested none of them are local to me. How can I find even a fractional co-founder, someone I can put on my pitch deck even in name only? Is there an app or a website for this?
In general if your co-founder was not in college with you, then it gets tough to find somebody. The co-founder thing is just a name which was given post-facto to identify two friends who were together in college and that spunoff a company.<p>Some people have the privilege to build stuff with their friends.<p>Some others don't have the same privilege, you can only play the hand you've been dealt, so hire someone to do what you need for the startup, and open a resturant/gym/club with your friend/s
Do you _really_ need a cofounder? Putting someone in your pitch deck who is not 100% committed is going to torpedo getting a term sheet when investors want to meet them.