In my startup (voicerepublic.com) everyone works part time. Technical and operational side are incredibly complex, yet with a part-time team we managed easily.

In my startup (voicerepublic.com) everyone works part time. Technical and operational side are incredibly complex, yet with a part-time team we managed easily. In fact, I could have been a 100% CTO (which of course means 180%^^), yet I chose to bring in a good friend and split the workload. In my experience 2 * 50% of good programmers that know each other and their stacks well, is much more than 1 * 100%. The rationale being that you can do architecture and reviews together, teach new traits and go on vacation at different times so that someone is always available. We are still a smallish team of about 12, but work from Switzerland and Germany and so far this methodology scaled very well for 2 years.