“Team > Solo. Try Solo if you wish, but quickly find a co-founder if you can“
Hiring in response to profit and building a team makes sense, but I’m negative on immediately trying to find a cofounder for reasons I described in another other post. This is a trade off where you’re adding risk and diluting your equity as some of the downsides. Whether or not that’s worth it is up to the individual and what kind of business is being built.
“ Most Solo makers work on too-small ideas (related to above)”
Define “too small” - if my living expenses are $1,000 but my idea produces $2,000 every month consistently, that’s a perfectly viable small business. “Small” ideas are only bad for venture capitalists who want an enormous return on their investment which is why they’ve brainwashed everyone to think that you must work on a Google sized business to be considered a success. I don’t live on their terms, and success for me is defined differently - the only thing that matters is that it’s not “too small” for me
Good points. Too small by my definition is too small for a given market need. eg: one dude making a mission critical app for Medical industry. I mean there are stories of one dev building an entire industry-changing app, but its an outlier. Thus why I say get a co-founder so you can remix ideas and make them better.
I appreciate your reply and will re-factor my list.
I wouldn’t even suggest you refactor - we don’t have to agree and maybe hiring a cofounder is what brings you happiness, in that case go for it. For my personal situation I’ve nixed the idea but we all have unique situations
Wait. Hold on. I re-read #2. I actually meant what you disagree with. Too small meaning the startup built is too small and should be bigger. So yes, I guess I do agree with "VC Bros" but not to make a startup investible, but stable and anti-fragile.
“Team > Solo. Try Solo if you wish, but quickly find a co-founder if you can“
Hiring in response to profit and building a team makes sense, but I’m negative on immediately trying to find a cofounder for reasons I described in another other post. This is a trade off where you’re adding risk and diluting your equity as some of the downsides. Whether or not that’s worth it is up to the individual and what kind of business is being built.
“ Most Solo makers work on too-small ideas (related to above)”
Define “too small” - if my living expenses are $1,000 but my idea produces $2,000 every month consistently, that’s a perfectly viable small business. “Small” ideas are only bad for venture capitalists who want an enormous return on their investment which is why they’ve brainwashed everyone to think that you must work on a Google sized business to be considered a success. I don’t live on their terms, and success for me is defined differently - the only thing that matters is that it’s not “too small” for me
Good points. Too small by my definition is too small for a given market need. eg: one dude making a mission critical app for Medical industry. I mean there are stories of one dev building an entire industry-changing app, but its an outlier. Thus why I say get a co-founder so you can remix ideas and make them better.
I appreciate your reply and will re-factor my list.
I wouldn’t even suggest you refactor - we don’t have to agree and maybe hiring a cofounder is what brings you happiness, in that case go for it. For my personal situation I’ve nixed the idea but we all have unique situations
Wait. Hold on. I re-read #2. I actually meant what you disagree with. Too small meaning the startup built is too small and should be bigger. So yes, I guess I do agree with "VC Bros" but not to make a startup investible, but stable and anti-fragile.