This article is for every woman who thinks about entrepreneurship but hesitate to make the jump, who dreams about building their own company but doesn’t think they are skilled enough or even who is currently founding a startup but wonders what a successful female founder should look like. Trigger alert: there is not only one answer to all the questions you might ask yourself, but for the purpose of this article, I have used the story of Joanne Kanaan as an example. She is the accomplished co-founder and CEO of Omini — a biotech startup funded by Entrepreneur First Paris. She shared her learnings with us when she spoke to an audience of budding entrepreneurs at a Female Founder Friday event we organized.

This is a write up of the last talk Entrepreneur First hosted at Station F on “Building strong co-founding teams”. Discover valuable lessons and tips shared by our founders. Have you ever made the connection between looking for a co-founder to build a startup and dating? …