[tiffani]

The last Mr. Co-founder I had was a sham for the very reasons mentioned here. All talk, very little output with a side of excuses at every sit-down. I was too young and naive at the time to realize what we had was less of a partnership and more of an "I'll treat you like someone I found on canYOUbuildthisforme.com." Definitely a good thing to not be impressed by talk. Not every person who can administer a server can write code to run on that server. Wish I'd known that back then. Lessons learned. :)

[mattm]

One of the lessons I've learned in life is that there are some people that will impress you very much when you first meet them. They will talk a lot about how much they're doing and what's going on for them and it will sound very impressive.

After knowing them for a while I start to see that they are just full of it. This has happened multiple times that I find there is a strong inverse correlation between the amount of talk someone does and the amount they actually get done.

[jayliew]

People who has shipped stuff has a portfolio/track record of stuff to show, thus they don't feel the urge to sound overly impressive when meeting someone the first time. imho