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Essential Qualities in Startup Founders (gabrielweinberg.com)
14 points by vlad on Sept 3, 2007 | hide | past | favorite | 7 comments



Starting a company is similar to starting a band. Sometimes a group of friends can start jamming together, and very quickly they begin to make music people love. Other times producers and managers need to match talent, as was the case with The Temptations. PG is in a position to match talent just as Berry Gordy of Motown was. If he does he may see more hit songs... I mean successful companies.


Related:

Startup Philosophy? Do As Much As Possible Yourself http://www.gabrielweinberg.com/startups/philosophy.html


Nice ideas. If you have people who have the ability to go out doing things by themselves though, having experienced mentors would be an even more unstoppable combination. A few nudges in the right direction would take you a long way.


Good article. I particularly liked this line: "First and foremost, almost nothing is that complicated when you get down to what it actually is."


This is good. I have noticed that most of the best material submitted to news.yc comes is written by the participants here.


good stuff - no RSS feed on the site :-(


Noted. I'll make one next time I post something.




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