While interesting and worthy of debate, the title makes it feel a lot more general than reality (this is a study of Kickstarter companies, so goes with the huge sample bias of “stuff that gets put on Kickstarter”).
As a solo founder, I think people always love the idea but don’t acknowledge how lonely it is compared to having at least one other founder (not to mention complementary skills etc).
Most high growth businesses go to zero as time continues, so while there are outliers the majority (in number) case still remains a zero outcome, not more or less revenue (let alone exit $).
NodeJS / React / Angular Fullstack Javascript Engineer | Sked Social | REMOTE | Full stack or Front end | Fulltime
Sked Social helps customers improve their visual marketing on social media. Our customers range from small businesses to global media, fashion and retail brands – and everything inbetween.
We're a fully remote team of 25, bootstrapped, profitable, and growing at a decent but manageable pace.
Timezone needs to be compatible with US Eastern (our head of engineering is there) but otherwise location doesn't matter, we hire anywhere.
Sked Social | REMOTE | Full stack or Front end | Fulltime
Sked Social helps customers improve their visual marketing on social media. Our customers range from small businesses to global media, fashion and retail brands – and everything inbetween.
We're a fully remote team of 25, bootstrapped, profitable, and growing at a decent but manageable pace.
Timezone needs to be compatible with US Eastern (our head of engineering is there) but otherwise location doesn't matter, we hire anywhere.
We have two engineering roles hiring currently.
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FRONT-END: AngularJS (1) + React
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Frontend focussed role, looking at improving our existing Angular 1 webapp and migrating us progressively to React. Be our frontend expert!
Could be that the data that is listed was previously on the profile but not currently (or matched from another service) vs acquired directly.