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Re: Elad Blog: How To Choose A Co-Founder

markwilliamson — Tue, 28 Feb 2012 21:52:19 -0000

great post Elad. I personally have talked numerous people out of going to "Founder Dating" events for number of these reasons.

I would only say that I consider having worked with your co-founder a requirement, not a nice to have. That is the single thing that eliminates the most risk in the founding relationship. If someone can't find a co-founder from the people that they have worked with before than they should spend at least a couple weeks working in a stressful situation with the person they are thinking of founding something with. For example, they could force themselves to launch a product in 2 weeks and see how it goes.

my 2cents...

Re: Mail from my 5-year-old nephew - Tom Stocky's blog

markwilliamson — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 17:41:48 -0000

You should be proud to be an uncle to such a talented artist, but I am pretty certain that your super power is not sonar, but to spew BS. No wait, that is my special talent.

Re: My theory on genius and chips distribution - Tom Stocky's blog

markwilliamson — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 18:31:03 -0000

Tom - I think you are generally on the right track and think you would find some of the work done by Howard Garder interesting. He introduced the theory of multiple "types of intelligences" a long time ago and I think it will help you think through your "types of chips". For example, he believes that there is a type of intelligence which he calls "Logical-Mathematical Intelligence (Number/Reasoning Smart)" and another called "Musical Intelligence (“Musical Smart”)" which would map to a couple of the types you described. Go check out this link to see all 9 of the intelligence types he proposes:

http://skyview.vansd.org/ls...

Finally, as others have noted, Gladwell's new book "Outliers" deals with this topic a bit. I am a big believer in taking these two theories together (multiple intelligences) and small advantages compound to explain a lot of things... along with something called "MindSet", but I have to run to a meeting... more when we get together for lunch soon.