“The energy of the mind is the essence of life.” – – Aristotle
Find yourself a partner or two, ASAP. Don’t be too hasty, but having a partner makes an enormous difference. The #1 wish of most business minded founders is to have a technical partner, a “tech cofounder,” but they go about it all wrong. I can’t drive around Silicon Valley without thinking of Hewlett and Packard, one of the best partnerships in history. They were both technical, quite similar in some ways but there were also several lesser known major differences in their personalities and beliefs. They supported each other to the end and made everything around them stronger because of it. A great partnership is about equality in the right places, and if it is maintained, the resulting energy is much more than the sum of its parts. In most great partnerships it’s impossible to discern who the leader is; both partners support the other almost more than themselves.
