I had a Co-Founder, Once

After attending different local events, trying to launch my own business, I met my first Co-Founder, non technical but with great skills on business development and startups, ideal match!

So we jumped into creating a product! We went with what we knew more: planning – it was yet another planning tool, but co-founder and I were happy with the idea. After some brainstorming we chose Threedom as the name of the app, the name sounded good and to be honest we didn’t do much research – red flag here as Threedom is a local company, a comedy group and who knows what else

Anyway April 2016 I registered Threedom.IO as domain, put a simple prototype and started talking with former coworkers about using the shiny product as planing tool. Idea was taking shape and we had to just make it real

But, we never made it real…

Somehow we dropped the ball and I’ve been wondering how could that happen when you have a good idea, good feedback about the product, great skills etc?

I’ve come down to the following reasons:

• We were great as individuals and good at teaming up, but together, as a team we were super inefficient. Communication styles were so different, tools, viewpoints, everything appeared to diverge – small decisions always needed an extra effort every time
• None of us at that time really needed to start something new. I was busy with a corporate job and other duties, my co-founder was also busy shuffling mentoring other startups

So we both closed the door to it, it would have been unfair to take that idea on my own and the understanding of that was mutual. The idea just died as we could not make it work together

So, well… I had a Co-Founder, once, but it didn’t work