I've worked alone for myself (freelancing), and alone for a startup (remotely), and together with business guys for a startup. Here's what I came up with: work

I've worked alone for myself (freelancing), and alone for a startup (remotely), and together with business guys for a startup. Here's what I came up with: working alone for freelancing is usually fine because the freelance work that you get is usually not as complex and requires little to no fore-thought, you can just jump into requirements and go. Working alone for a startup has it's pros and cons, working alone is great for concentration but working together with others who share the same vision and discussing solutions to technical problems in non-technical terms is definitely valuable for all involved. The one thing that's an issue working with a team of strictly non-technical guys and being the only technical guy is explaining what is or isn't feasible in understandable terms. Having more than one technical person involved in a team of people who share the ultimate vision is probably ideal because technical issues can be discussed between each other to see if a solution can be found, sometimes I think you just need another point of view.