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> If you're not good at building a founding team, how will > you excel at building a company? This falsely equates "team" (a group of people) with "company"
by jt2190 13y ago
> If you're not good at building a founding team, how will
> you excel at building a company?
This falsely equates "team" (a group of people) with "company" (a business venture). If the business venture requires a team of people to tackle it, then obviously putting together that team is a prerequisite. However, there are many business ventures that don't require a team, and developing better team building skills in those cases doesn't make any sense.
- adventured 13y agoTwitPic and Plenty of Fish come to mind (even Instagram had a very small team for a long time) It's remarkable how far you can scale certain types of web businesses now with one or just a few people and a pile of hardware. If you're a social person and you like teams, clearly as always that's a viable path. If you're not, and you prefer going mostly solo, it's also clear that that's a viable path. The variable is you can only build certain types of businesses going solo.