The Role of the Cofounder

What is a cofounder? How do founders and cofounders find each other? What are their respective expectations and contributions? And how do they evaluate each other?

We will have four speakers presenting for 10-15 minutes each and then taking questions. We'll explore typical startup situations and answer your questions on how to join a startup as a cofounder.

Pizza will be served.

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Sergei Burkov is a Silicon Valley serial entrepreneur and currently cofounder of Alterra ( http://www.alterra.cc/en/ ), a search engine for leisure travel.

Sean Murphy is President of a Silicon Valley management consulting firm SKMurphy, Inc. (www.skmurphy.com (http://www.skmurphy.com/)) helping technology firms with new product introduction, focusing on early customers, early revenue, and early references.

Alvin Wang is a Silicon Valley serial entrepreneur/CTO and currently CTO or lead architect at five startups.

Ed Ipser is president of IpserLab (www.ipserlab.com (http://www.ipserlab.com/)), a Silicon Valley startup foundry.

Special thanks to Founder Habitat (www.founderhabitat.org (http://www.founderhabitat.org/)) for hosting the event.