The "Tower of Babel" problem at events like startup weekend is an interesting phenomenon to experience first hand. I did a startup weekend once ..and came away

The "Tower of Babel" problem at events like startup weekend is an interesting phenomenon to experience first hand. I did a startup weekend once ..and came away thinking this: - better to have a small number of developers : ~2 , maybe 3 max. 1 is probably just fine for the weekend. - better to have a smaller number of people on the whole team - maybe 3-4 max. The more they can tee up potential customers the better. EDIT: the nuance here is around the numbers of people. In a normal startup situation its harder to get bigger than 2-3 people at the very beginning. But at a startup weekend like event if you have a charismatic team lead all of a sudden you'll have 8 or 10 people (this was possible back when I attended SW). So, the goal here is, if you're the team lead, resist collecting a large number of people, and if you a developer/doer, resist joining a team with a large number of people.