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Jaimie Carter
Jaimie Carter

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How'd you meet your co-founder?

For those out there running their own show; how'd you meet your other founders? Are you all tech founders? Are you about to embark on finding co-founders? Any stories of serendipity to inspire us?

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hussein cheayto

I have founded my company codinstyle and I have 2 co-founders. The first one, I met at work in Ericsson. The second one, is a Udemy instructor.
All three of us had the same mentality => have a side income business.

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Jaimie Carter

That's great Hussein. How is it working for you guys? Do you enjoy working together and making something of your own?

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hussein cheayto

Well it's a little bit different. 2 of us live in Lebanon while the 3rd member lives in Kiev

I'm working on the website, marketing and sales.
My friend is working on a mobile app for the website.
My other friend helped mainly in marketing.

We discuss and share ideas almost every day. It's worth trying, work on something that we believe in, instead of spending hours playing addictive video games

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Jaimie Carter

Haha, yeah. Better spending the time on your business, for sure. It's pretty cool you do it internationally. Are the timezones hard?

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hussein cheayto

In my case, timezone is not a problem. I work on a night shift, so it's convenient for all of us.
What about you? Are you a founder?

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Jaimie Carter

It's a long story. I unknowingly had a startup in 2007-9... Yeah, it's a long story. I'm pretty close to doing another one again, based around rostering. With a cool twist or two.

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hussein cheayto

Best of luck!!

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Jaimie Carter

Thanks. And to you guys, too.

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Ben Halpern

I met @peter on Reddit and met @jess through a mutual friend that I knew through summer camp as a kid and she knew through college. 🙂

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Kevin K. Johnson

I've been thinking I need to get more active on Reddit…

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Octavio Rafael Cibrián Osuna

Is a good social meeting Reddit? I'm looking por a partner to work on developer software. But is tío hard meet someone :/

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Jaimie Carter

Thanks, Ben. I love it how we can form amazing relationships from online communities, not only from the "real world".