Partner Selection: The person I chose to partner with on my startup is a great human being, but not cut out for being a startup partner. Not everyone is cut ou

Partner Selection: The person I chose to partner with on my startup is a great human being, but not cut out for being a startup partner. Not everyone is cut out for this and even people like pg have trouble determining who's got the determination and who doesn't. Next time I'll pick somone who is technical (this person wasn't) and determined and who loves this stuff as much as I do. Industry Selection and (effectively) going it alone: My first startup was something I could code in the evenings myself. The good news is that I actually got a functioning freemium service to work on my own with (too few) real customers. The bad news is that the ease of coding also meant that a lot of people had written similar sites. The barriers to entry were just too low. The good news: Coding the whole service from the CSS to the SQL taught me a lot about coding that years of corporate work never did.