Elkhan Shabanov

I would not name names, but I've been following several public figures, especially it started during COVID because we were all a little bit bored, not traveling, nothing much to do. For now, I can tell you it's very hard to find a person who will be absolutely perfect. Expecting somebody to be absolutely perfect is by itself a wrong type of expectation. So I decided not to play that game.

Well, one of the first things I would tell a new entrepreneur is Be ready that every time you think everything is going well, that it can turn on you at any point of time, any second. You have to anticipate that things that you couldn't even predict that may happen will happen, because that's how life is.

Well, one of the first things I would tell a new entrepreneur is Be ready that every time you think everything is going well, that it can turn on you at any point of time, any second. You have to anticipate that things that you couldn't even predict that may happen will happen, because that's how life is.

Well, one of the first things I would tell a new entrepreneur is Be ready that every time you think everything is going well, that it can turn on you at any point of time, any second. You have to anticipate that things that you couldn't even predict that may happen will happen, because that's how life is.

I would tell them to be very careful with equity and not to invite way too many people very early to be to have equity in the company because it is extremely valuable thing down the road. While doing business with close friends and family, this one is obvious, but people still do that, work with professionals.

I would tell them to be very careful with equity and not to invite way too many people very early to be to have equity in the company because it is extremely valuable thing down the road. While doing business with close friends and family, this one is obvious, but people still do that, work with professionals.

I would tell them to be very careful with equity and not to invite way too many people very early to be to have equity in the company because it is extremely valuable thing down the road. While doing business with close friends and family, this one is obvious, but people still do that, work with professionals.

Because professional that you are paying for his professional job for the long term of your company is so much better than your friend to whom you are not paying and who is doing this job because he is your friend and not necessarily 100% sharing your vision. relationships based on favors or friendship are not good for a business for a long term.

Because professional that you are paying for his professional job for the long term of your company is so much better than your friend to whom you are not paying and who is doing this job because he is your friend and not necessarily 100% sharing your vision. relationships based on favors or friendship are not good for a business for a long term.

Because professional that you are paying for his professional job for the long term of your company is so much better than your friend to whom you are not paying and who is doing this job because he is your friend and not necessarily 100% sharing your vision. relationships based on favors or friendship are not good for a business for a long term.

From where I'm an expert, I will tell them if you are a business founder and your business idea based on technology, stop looking for the technology co-founder because more times than not, this will take a very long time and then you become

From where I'm an expert, I will tell them if you are a business founder and your business idea based on technology, stop looking for the technology co-founder because more times than not, this will take a very long time and then you become

From where I'm an expert, I will tell them if you are a business founder and your business idea based on technology, stop looking for the technology co-founder because more times than not, this will take a very long time and then you become

a hostage of the knowledge experience of that technical co-founder because everybody has their limits i've seen this way too many times when technical co-founders are let's say have a very limited knowledge in the technical field and they drive company into the comfort zone of theirs

a hostage of the knowledge experience of that technical co-founder because everybody has their limits i've seen this way too many times when technical co-founders are let's say have a very limited knowledge in the technical field and they drive company into the comfort zone of theirs

a hostage of the knowledge experience of that technical co-founder because everybody has their limits i've seen this way too many times when technical co-founders are let's say have a very limited knowledge in the technical field and they drive company into the comfort zone of theirs

where they can do something and that is not necessarily even close to where a company should be or what a company should or can do, breaking up those relationships is very expensive later because technical co-founder usually has a second unless the company is founded by technology. This is a different story.

where they can do something and that is not necessarily even close to where a company should be or what a company should or can do, breaking up those relationships is very expensive later because technical co-founder usually has a second unless the company is founded by technology. This is a different story.

where they can do something and that is not necessarily even close to where a company should be or what a company should or can do, breaking up those relationships is very expensive later because technical co-founder usually has a second unless the company is founded by technology. This is a different story.

But business founder and technical co-founder is the second size of the equity chunk in the company. Buried so many startups for that particular reason. Better to pay someone to do this job than spend your efforts on trying to find a co-founder for technology.