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While it is often tempting to launch a venture with a co-founder, the attendant risks warrant very serious and deliberate consideration.  If you successfully optimize your idea, obviously you will be halving your financial return at the time of your liquidity event.  Of course it is the extremely rare CEO who possesses all the skills necessary to lead a start-up to a successful exit.  However, it is also rare when two entrepreneurs (typically good friends) have skills which are so perfectly…