How to pick a co-founder

Picking a co-founder is your most important decision. It’s more important than your product, market, and investors.

The ideal founding team is two individuals, with a history of working together, of similar age and financial standing, with mutual respect. One is good at building products and the other is good at selling them.

Venture Hacks has got it right.

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I'm actually looking for a cofounder right now to get a little venture off the ground. It's kind of tricky, though. I'm not a developer, but the venture is a web startup. I have the idea and the game-plan, but no skills.
Well then, which one of Garry and Sachin is good at building products? :-)
@digerati Well then it looks like youll be the sales person. Time to find a developer. What are you looking for?
@jordan Since I'm not a developer, I don't have any preferences for specialties. Every project I've backed in the past (besides Mac dev) has been PHP, but I'd love to partner on a RoR project for this one. It seems like the most nimble startups are devving on RoR, so that would make sense.

I've definitely got the sales part covered as well as the funding. That's the role I've played in previous projects. It's just a matter of finding the right product-builder for this one.

Know anyone?

Johan -- both, which I think is better eh =)
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