Startup Co-Founders can be either a blessing or a curse. If you are contemplating starting your own business, you should understand the pros and cons of being the sole founder or doing it with one or more co-founders.
One co-founder likes to speak at conferences, the other likes to build the product. One likes to do sales calls, the other likes to hire, etc. It’s not always perfect, but it helps reduce conflict.
James Spurway is an Angel Investor, Mentor, Advisor, Speaker, former Commercial Pilot, and Author specialising in raising debt and equity capital. He strives to model diversity, equity, and inclusion in the founders he agrees to invest and work with. He has paused his angel investing activity to focus on raising his first US$ 50M venture capital fund, which will invest in startups that can accelerate the achievement of net zero emissions. James spent the past 33 years living in Hong Kong, Vietnam, Germany, Switzerland, Monaco, the USA, Thailand, the Philippines, Singapore, and Australia, his country of birth. In that time, he started 10 businesses, exited from seven, shut down two, and kept one. He has invested in a total of 50 startups since 2001 and had six successful exits.
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