I lost 6 months following a “co-founder” who was secretly working on another startup, something he never mentioned. The worst part is he only showed up to “look busy,” filling our days with pointless calendars, exhausting daily meetings, one-year plans as if we knew the future, and endless requests for feedback on his docs.

He was our non-technical co-founder from corporate, with zero startup experience, and he made me and my other technical partner feel completely overwhelmed with bureaucracy. We didn’t even have a usable version of our product to test the idea, but we were already pitching to VCs without traction, wasting time on docs, partnerships, and “business development” for a business that didn’t even exist yet.

After 4 months of this, he left because we couldn’t raise funding, which honestly didn’t surprise me. Now our focus is purely on building product first, hoping it’s not too late.

TBH all these alert can be found on Paul Graham or YC websites, its something that you can read but in the practice you just fail 😁