Hi Caroline,

Welcome (by another lurker ;)

I haven't read the rules in detail (tch tch to me!), i hope interlaced
comments are okay and not frowned upon. I suspect most people have migrated
from elm/pine to something that can render HTML? :)

So, I would really love to know how this works in start ups. Is that
> the deal with co-founders, you get one doer with one talker, one front
> guy and one back guy (or girl ;-).
>
>
I've done a few startups, with various settings... the ones that come to
mind immediately are a few by myself, two with another person, and a few
more where there were between 3-6 founders...

Being able to do it all yourself is rare, but exceptionally successful...
having said that, in most cases, i guess you have sayers and doers that are
specialists, but critically, they must respect each others specialities...
for example, if you put a pure salesman and a hard core techie together (who
does not remember the last time he saw the sun!), it's unlikely to work...
unless the salesman is fairly technical, and the techie is presentable to
clients.
(i can say this of course, because i'm every the techie coding into the wee
hours of the morning ;)

In a startup, you have to pitch in for one another very often, and
multi-skill is the name of the game... unless you go 3 or more people...
then you can afford an unpresentable specialist :)


> Do you all agree in this divide? Maybe the true entrepreneurs are
> those that to have both, or enough of both to actually get enough
> done.
>
> At some point in a start up do you have to get enough doers around you
> to get it done, up till then you have to get by.
>
> I hope I get some answers. I feel kind of an imposter on this group,
> I'm not actually an entrepreneur, just some middle manager working my
> way through a career in mid sized companies...
>
>
As the saying goes - "every revolution was first a thought in one man's (or
woman's) mind" :) ... being on this list will undoubtedly inspire (i know
seeing so many talented people on the list definitely inspires me) and your
first startup is no doubt but just a few months away (even if it's on the
side to start with) :)

simran.

ps: what prompted you to join this group... i detect there must be a strong
startup desire/spark somewhere? :)

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