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How to build the team for our startup

Posted at — Jun 7, 2019 by Abishek Muthian

Building the core team for a startup is the most important activity for the founder after the startup idea has been validated . Experts recommend to spend 6 months to 1 year on building the core team before launching the startup, as the core team can make or break the startup.

Today we will see some crucial roles and team building strategies for our startup.

Co-founder

Founder is the person who launches the startup. One can run a startup as a single founder, I've been one; but for all practical reasons and to provide better probability of success to our startup, we will have co-founder(s).

A co-founder should believe in our startup mission, it is better if they had faced the problem we are trying to solve with our startup and more importantly balance with the skills in the areas we lack.



So it is essential to retrospect our skill-set before approaching (or) searching for a co-founder.

It is typical for a startup to have co-founders who have known each other for a considerable period, enough to build trust between each other. Trust is crucial for the stability of a startup, last thing we need is in-fighting among founders in a startup.

Not everyone would be lucky to find a co-founder among someone who they already knew and trust, in that case we'll have to look out for a co-founder and build new relationships.

Starting point to look for a co-founder is, to find someone who share similar interests at the same time has different perspective in those interests. We don't want someone as co-founder who always shares same perspective as ours, as it would be counterproductive.

Investors have their way to look out for subtle nuances in relationship between co-founders, like in an interview if one founder does all the talking (or) when the other is

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