Why Finding the Right Co-Founder is Critical to Startup Success – with Martin Novak [029]
Why Finding the Right Co-Founder is Critical to Startup Success
Martin Novak is the co-founder of Visidom, a SaaS tool that records your website visitors' interactions and creates custom heatmaps, so you can see exactly how people are interacting with your website.
Key Talking Points
How Martin and his co-founder Michael Repetný came up with the idea for the product and why being ‘naive' helped them.
How their previous startups (service businesses) helped to identify the opportunity and also validate the idea.
How Martin and Michael bootstrapped with just ‘tens of thousands of dollars' and why too much bootstrapping is not a good thing.
Why applying for Y Combinator was an amazing experience for the team even though they didn't get accepted.
How the two co-founders realized that they were often ‘clashing' and what they decided to do about it.
Success Quote
“Anything is possible. You just have to set a goal and then try to achieve it.”