I agree the problem is still open. It's a very difficult problem. Partners have to trust each other. It is hard to build that kind of trust ethereally, and startups, by definition, don't have the capital to have people travel around "dating".
Solving that problem would certainly open many doors, and not just in the startup world.
I'd love to see a blog post along the lines of this thread.
One question I have is that each partnership in my experience has a different mode of operation. For some, it's a lot like a marriage. For others it's a "I can work with him. I could never stand him in a social setting."
Then there are the well-known partnerships of the past: Jobs and Woz, Larry and Sergey, ...
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I agree the problem is still open. It's a very difficult problem. Partners have to trust each other. It is hard to build that kind of trust ethereally, and startups, by definition, don't have the capital to have people travel around "dating".
Solving that problem would certainly open many doors, and not just in the startup world.
I'd love to see a blog post along the lines of this thread.
One question I have is that each partnership in my experience has a different mode of operation. For some, it's a lot like a marriage. For others it's a "I can work with him. I could never stand him in a social setting."
Then there are the well-known partnerships of the past: Jobs and Woz, Larry and Sergey, ...