PG on finding cofounders and being a strong team

Summary of PG's response:<p>- Founder is more important than the idea<p>- He likes people who have been friends for a while.<p>- people who worked together before, so they know each others working capacity<p>- don't like people who came together for the purpose of doing this startup (nothing else holding them together)<p>- almost every startup, at some point the startup is doomed and worthless<p>- friends will work on the startup even if it's worthless in order not to let each other down, will often result in over coming the rough days and succeed in the end.<p>- It's really bad if they can't figure which one of the founder is the leader is (needs to have a more "forceful" leader)<p>- "it's good if there one who pushes the other out a little bit, but not too much"

And yet, knowing all this, I still applied alone.<p>Had the perfect co-founder, too: lifelong friend, smart, capable, diligent, with whom I’ve worked on a number of projects. He just couldn’t get his act together for the application.<p>Still, if my ice cube’s chance in hell of getting accepted pans out, I’ll probably drag him into it anyway; it’s not really about the money. I applied with some truly insane ideas, so even though I <i>could</i> go it alone, it’d be way nicer to have someone on board!<p>Fingers crossed, anyway. Anyone in a similar boat?

But for single founders (like me) who don't have such a friend, what do you do? Even if you go around looking for one now, by definition your relationship won't be considered good enough until at least a few years later.

"A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship." - John D. Rockefeller

I find it hard to work or do business with close friends, whenever there is a problem or discussion I worry that the relationship will be damaged. Separating business and friendship is hard.

How are "project-less" applications going btw?