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Interesting but it's a shame that R/WW only dedicates a few lines to this. I'd have loved to have scratched beneath the surface to discover more about how the

by dotBen 16y ago

Interesting but it's a shame that R/WW only dedicates a few lines to this. I'd have loved to have scratched beneath the surface to discover more about how the founder balances dev tasks and admin, and also stuff like product acceptance testing if he is also the engineer building it. I'm not ratting on R/WW per se but I am disappointed by the 'bare minimum' blogging to just rack up a page impression rather than deliver an insight.

rgrieselhuber 16y ago
I've written about some of this before (http://ginzametrics.com/the-royal-we-single-founder-startups.html http://ginzametrics.com/the-royal-we-single-founder-startups...) but you bring up a good point as a lot of making this work is a balancing act. I'll write something up when I get a chance.
- jayeshsalvi 16y ago
  Thanks rgrieselhuber. It was very touching to see someone put in words what I learnt myself in past 1.5 years. We may not have co-founders, but we find people like us all around the world thanks to this connected world.
- skowmunk 16y ago
  Beautifully put and written. Thanks for sharing your experiences. I agree about the idea generation (along with the rest of the article), its not as tough as one thinks it out to be. Being open to more information from whatever source one can get it from, books, videos, customers, friends, etc is the first step in idea generation. This is the way I like to put it: Given the same level of creativity or intelligence, a person with more information can come up with more ideas than the one with less information. Another way I like to put it (my 'understanding' of how to increase the rate of innovation): If a hypothetical innovation/solution (idea) needs 10 points of information (now don't take the 'points' in a literal sense, its a metaphor) connected in a particular pattern (the points together with the pattern, constituting the 'idea/innovation/solution'), given two people or teams with equal intelligence or creative capability, the team which already has 8 points of information will have a better chance of making that innovation or finding that solution than the team with just 5 points of information. Because the first team/person has to creatively find out where or what just the other 2 points are while the second team has to creatively find out about those 5 missing points. The odds are definitely in favor of the team with 8 existing points of information and just 2 missing points. Of course, this is a theory/principal that assumes equality of all other resources to make a point. End of the day, information rules.

by dotBen 16y ago

rgrieselhuber 16y ago

I've written about some of this before (http://ginzametrics.com/the-royal-we-single-founder-startups.html http://ginzametrics.com/the-royal-we-single-founder-startups...) but you bring up a good point as a lot of making this work is a balancing act. I'll write something up when I get a chance.

jayeshsalvi 16y ago
Thanks rgrieselhuber. It was very touching to see someone put in words what I learnt myself in past 1.5 years. We may not have co-founders, but we find people like us all around the world thanks to this connected world.
skowmunk 16y ago
Beautifully put and written. Thanks for sharing your experiences. I agree about the idea generation (along with the rest of the article), its not as tough as one thinks it out to be. Being open to more information from whatever source one can get it from, books, videos, customers, friends, etc is the first step in idea generation. This is the way I like to put it: Given the same level of creativity or intelligence, a person with more information can come up with more ideas than the one with less information. Another way I like to put it (my 'understanding' of how to increase the rate of innovation): If a hypothetical innovation/solution (idea) needs 10 points of information (now don't take the 'points' in a literal sense, its a metaphor) connected in a particular pattern (the points together with the pattern, constituting the 'idea/innovation/solution'), given two people or teams with equal intelligence or creative capability, the team which already has 8 points of information will have a better chance of making that innovation or finding that solution than the team with just 5 points of information. Because the first team/person has to creatively find out where or what just the other 2 points are while the second team has to creatively find out about those 5 missing points. The odds are definitely in favor of the team with 8 existing points of information and just 2 missing points. Of course, this is a theory/principal that assumes equality of all other resources to make a point. End of the day, information rules.