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The Magical Founding Team Mix For Web Startups

39 points by trustfundbaby 16y ago

liamk 16y ago
Reading the comments on the blog it becomes clear that people's opinions are most likely generated by their jobs. If they create stuff (engineer or designer) they value others who also create stuff. If they are a money person (business or sales) they seem to value others with the same skill set. I suppose the ultimate is to see the value in each skill set.
radley 16y ago
wanted: inbound marketer
Detrus 16y ago
Damnit, what if I'm a competent designer but a mediocre/crappy developer? I want to do a startup too!
- donaq 16y ago
  Speaking as a programmer, I don't think you need to be a brilliant programmer to do a startup. If you can cobble something useful together using duct tape and glue, then sprinkle some glitter on it until it looks sort of nice, people will probably start using it until you have enough traction to hire a competent programmer. But you do need to at least be able to do duct tape programming.
  - ABrandt 16y ago
    I think you make a good point--one that business types often overlook. Its extremely daunting to begin duct taping a startup together though. Your options are never optimal. I've spent nearly 2 years (on and off) banging and hammering on Drupal to try and make it do something non-trivial. I'm proud of what I've been able to do, but I can't help but think what I could be capable of if I devoted that time to learning to program the right way. With that being said, I would highly recommend Drupal as a reasonable way for a non-technical type to piece something together. The community that supports the project is pretty top notch IMO.
il 16y ago
"Ecstatic users do much of your marketing for you." is one of the biggest misconceptions a startup founder can have. Please don't make the mistake of depending on your users for marketing- you will fail. And your marketer should absolutely know how to create good content/write good copy- but unless they know how to spend an ad budget to drive traffic to that copy, your content is worthless.
samratjp 16y ago
Hardly as amusing as Guy Kawasaki's Funny Farm (scroll down) - http://blog.guykawasaki.com/2006/08/the_inside_scoo.html#axzz0wpRYB51e http://blog.guykawasaki.com/2006/08/the_inside_scoo.html#axz...

39 points by trustfundbaby 16y ago

liamk 16y ago

Reading the comments on the blog it becomes clear that people's opinions are most likely generated by their jobs. If they create stuff (engineer or designer) they value others who also create stuff. If they are a money person (business or sales) they seem to value others with the same skill set. I suppose the ultimate is to see the value in each skill set.

radley 16y ago

wanted: inbound marketer

Detrus 16y ago

Damnit, what if I'm a competent designer but a mediocre/crappy developer? I want to do a startup too!

donaq 16y ago
Speaking as a programmer, I don't think you need to be a brilliant programmer to do a startup. If you can cobble something useful together using duct tape and glue, then sprinkle some glitter on it until it looks sort of nice, people will probably start using it until you have enough traction to hire a competent programmer. But you do need to at least be able to do duct tape programming.
- ABrandt 16y ago
  I think you make a good point--one that business types often overlook. Its extremely daunting to begin duct taping a startup together though. Your options are never optimal. I've spent nearly 2 years (on and off) banging and hammering on Drupal to try and make it do something non-trivial. I'm proud of what I've been able to do, but I can't help but think what I could be capable of if I devoted that time to learning to program the right way. With that being said, I would highly recommend Drupal as a reasonable way for a non-technical type to piece something together. The community that supports the project is pretty top notch IMO.

il 16y ago

"Ecstatic users do much of your marketing for you." is one of the biggest misconceptions a startup founder can have. Please don't make the mistake of depending on your users for marketing- you will fail. And your marketer should absolutely know how to create good content/write good copy- but unless they know how to spend an ad budget to drive traffic to that copy, your content is worthless.

samratjp 16y ago

Hardly as amusing as Guy Kawasaki's Funny Farm (scroll down) - http://blog.guykawasaki.com/2006/08/the_inside_scoo.html#axzz0wpRYB51e http://blog.guykawasaki.com/2006/08/the_inside_scoo.html#axz...