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It's not easy to build a great Web application. While open-source tools, readily available APIs, social platforms and cloud hosting providers have made it easier in many ways, being a Web entrepreneur is still not for the faint of heart. It's challenging to design, build and deploy software. It's also challenging to attract and retain a loyal community of customers and users.

This is one of the reasons that it's so important to have a good co-founder. Although you certainly can make the case for a single-person startup, it's so much easier to have a co-founder and we've covered in the past tips on finding a good one. In this post, I'll focus on a few keys to helping co-founders work together to build a better product. A quick note, while I primarily talk about co-founders, the same principals should also be applied to interacting with all early employees as you really are partners on the mission to build a great product.