Lesson Learned: Choose your co-founder carefully

From personal experience I would have to say that picking a company co-founder or business partner that is in a situation similar to your own is best. Here’s a few reasons why:

• If you no longer need to work to pay the bills, but your co-founder does the project will most likely suffer.

•  Unless you and your co-founder or business partner share the same goals and aspirations the partnership will divulge over time.

•  If you’re similar to each other that means you should be able to hang out and spend leisure time together, thus getting to know how the other likes to work and establishing better chemistry.

There is lots of other reasons to choose a business partner in a similar situation as yours, but those are the top ones that came to mind. Don’t get me wrong I don’t mean someone that has similar skills or knowledge base as yours as that could actually be counter productive, but as a starting point based upon my own experience I would suggest making sure you have the points mentioned above covered.

Inspirational Quote

“The best index to a person’s character is how he treats people who can’t do him any good, and how he treats people who can’t fight back.”

- Abigail Van Buren

Inspirational Quote

“You cannot dream yourself into a character, you must hammer and forge yourself into one.”

- Henry David Thoreau

Inspirational Quote

“You cannot dream yourself into a character, you must hammer and forge yourself into one.”

- Henry David Thoreau

Blogging Recession?

I don’t know about you but I have recently noticed that the “blogosphere” in general has slowed down. Which has led me to pose the question: Are we going through a blogging recession? Some may laugh at that question as the number of new blogs being created daily is still on the upswing, but at least to me blogging just doesn’t have the same excitement around it that it once enjoyed during it’s peak in 2004/05.

 

 

Some of the web’s most prominent bloggers such as Steve Rubel have even pointed to signs of a blogging slowdown. Another reason may be due to the fact that more people are now “micro blogging” and providing almost real-time insight into their lives on services such as twitter and jaiku.

 

 

So recession or not, you be the judge. In my personal opinion I see a slowdown but that’s not to say that blogging as a whole is going away anytime soon, although it will be interesting to see it’s evolution and what form it takes on in the coming years.