"... One with great colleagues that help, inspire, and challenge me. Everything else is optional. ..." Do you need other people to give you the core motivation

"... One with great colleagues that help, inspire, and challenge me. Everything else is optional. ..." Do you need other people to give you the core motivation & challenge to get things done? Individualism is at the core of Startups. Individuals first, team second. Why? Because designing & building stuff is a pretty much a solitary task. Sure you can have a team to assemble the bits. But in the end it's really down to how well one individual does particular job, task. You will fail where individuals fail, regardless of help by other team members. where failure is the norm an ideal office is not optional The ideal workplace is an important concept for Startups. It's where you do your thinking and execute your ideas. Your thoughts are your product. The better the ideas, the better the product. Poor workplaces, no matter how good the team or individual is toxic to good thinking. A good workplace can be like wearing safety kit doing a dangerous job. It shields your thoughts from unwanted distractions. Filters the environment of distracting noise. It lets you get on with the job not having to stop, cough your lungs up, wipe the crap from your boiler suit every time you sit at your keyboard. Another concern. If you want to keep your co-workers, fellow hackers on the job, the office has to be close or a lot better than their own house. [0] You have lots of hurdles in a Startup. An ideal, even good workplace is a core concern. It is not optional. [0] This is a Phil Greenspun idea on building and keeping good engineering teams. There are a whole lot of good practical ideas here ~ http://philip.greenspun.com/ancient-history/managing-software-engineers http://philip.greenspun.com/ancient-history/managing-softwar...