[skaviani]

@rexreed Yes that's true that's how founders have been finding each other historically. Keep in mind that many in the survey were pre-CoundersLab. We're not into putting out research as a marketing tool, we're doing research to help entrepreneurs understand their world, trends, get informed and be successful. I think this piece is a testament to our culture of being true, not just pushing our agenda.

Back to your point though, I suspect (and am betting my business on the fact) that when we do this same survey in 3 or 5 years from now you'll start to see CoFoudnersLab show up on the chart; we are too new, and it takes time for teams to come together and launch startups.

[rexreed]

I agree, but CoFounder's Lab is not the only opportunity for such online and event-driven meetups for cofounder dating. In fact, I've been to numerous co-founder dating type events as well as websites that attempt to do cofounder matching. Those have been around for well over a decade... you'd expect to see some influence there with those events in the data. Unless you're doing something radically different that will shift it away from friends / family / coworkers / colleagues, I'd expect the ratios to stay about the same.