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If you can find someone willing to do all the hard work while you sit and ideate, sure that would be a lovely deal. There's somewhat of a stigma in the startup
by WJW 4y ago
If you can find someone willing to do all the hard work while you sit and ideate, sure that would be a lovely deal. There's somewhat of a stigma in the startup world against idea people though, precisely because they think that being creative "should be" enough to succeed. It usually isn't and to be "very" successful you need both the 80 hour weeks AND ample creativity. To be merely averagely successful you can get away with either hard work OR creativity, but TBH given your deprecatory remarks about 9-5 jobs it doesn't sound you are as Grishammy (yet) as your initial post suggests. :)
- bjornsing 4y agoSorry wasn’t meant to be deprecatory remakes. I’ve had plenty of 9-5 jobs and I’m looking into getting another one now. Just wanted to be clear that they typically do not come with any incentives to excel, at least not here in Sweden.
- matthewdgreen 4y agoThe cost is that there are a lot of people in the world who have the business skills to create a strong startup, but lack the technical background to create a compelling product. Meanwhile there are plenty of technical founders with great product ideas, but who must (best case) spend years of their lives building HR organizations and "selling" instead of innovating. In the worst case, they'll be bad at those specific tasks and will simply fail. Today's startup culture doesn't really have a good way for productive technical founders to get their ideas into the world without doing all the heavy lifting. Maybe our current system is the best possible system; it's possible there's also room for improvement.