Confessions of an American Entrepreneur: how to find your partner in the shortest possible time

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If there's one thing I've learned in the past week, I think there are two things:

1 Ask more questions.

2 Entrepreneurship is a difficult business.

The story begins:

Last Wednesday afternoon, I found I was looking forward to an Angel investment project interview frustrated. This is a big hit for me because I really want to get the opportunity to invest. I couldn't figure out what was wrong with my project, so I called to ask Adri why.

He gave me a very simple answer: "You don't have a start-up partner." If you can find one before Saturday, please let me know. ”

I called my good friend Matt: "Hey, I need a start-up partner, and I suddenly feel like I should do a micro-website (microsite, a personalized homepage)." What do you think is the best name? We two thought for a long time, finally came up with a name: Okcofounder.com!!!

Only great artists do not need to reproduce ...

When we were sure of Okcofounder's name, I was thinking about how to build this site, what kind of things to design, and how to jump out of the way:

"Wait, I should design some interesting questions, even we can borrow OkCupid brand Ah, this will be a very interesting thing." ”

"Publish our ideas in Silicon Beach or hecknews." "A few minutes later, some friends contacted me on Facebook.

Over the next few days, I got some replies--Some people didn't even look at the site and contacted me about their ideas, and some of the very senior entrepreneurs thanked me for the idea, and some of us needed to communicate more. Some people even contacted me in Thursday night because they saw what I said on the website. It feels really crazy. Some of my friends think my behavior is bold.

The data is always the most fascinating.

Several friends contacted me via email and Twitter and asked me to quantify the data on the site. The following is our analysis:

· The number of visits since April 17 amounted to 8,840 persons. 8.7% of the 770 people from Australia, this is my target group.

· There are 1,083 of them from Twitter and the rest are seeing us from Hacker News or Facebook.

· Talked to 27 people on Facebook.

· Get 39 attention from Twitter.

· A total of 33 friends have become my contacts, others are obviously in the fun, not the people I want.

· The reply of about 4-5 people is very good.

· 295 people visited my LinkedIn homepage. 、

· Contact a start-up partner

Despite finding a contact person who might be a start-up partner--but I just left his contact form because I haven't been able to get his permission. But we are all fit, his work is similar to mine, we have the same values, technical background and entrepreneurial dream. Finally we meet in the apartment and go to Ikea to decorate the studio.

The last--no end

Someone on Heck news suggested using that data to create a site to meet with a start-up partner, and I spent some time thinking about what I was going to do next-whether to stay in residen.se (a real estate agency) or to do some new experiments on my own.

Maybe I should make a website for those who want to start a business to do something?