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if you don't mind, i'd like to throw in a few desirable traits of a business person. i've rubbed shoulders with business students as a co-founder of a student
by jmtame 18y ago
if you don't mind, i'd like to throw in a few desirable traits of a business person.
i've rubbed shoulders with business students as a co-founder of a student entrepreneur group. the problem usually starts when the business guy runs out of money to pay people in india on elance for his project. so he poaches other people's teams for programmers, exaggerates the heck out of his project (we built this in 2 months! [read: this has been sitting inactive for 4+ years]), treats the programmers like s*, gives ridiculous deadlines, and yells a lot.
but that's not to say the business guy is useless at all. here are a few things they could help the coders with:
[1] term sheets, make sure they're good.
[2] go do the fundraising (be really good at presenting in front of a lot of people too)
[3] talk to as many of the users as possible and let me know what the top complaints and compliments are. the rest i'll figure out from analytics. [4] get us partnerships that will help everyone immensely, the user, the startup, and the partner.
- martian 18y agoI'd add: help establish some basic decision-making structure (e.g., despotic vs democratic) and simple accountability measures.
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