The team is just one variable in what makes a startup successful. It happens to be the most important variable IMO. But collecting data wouldn't help here, as success may be attributed to a founders network or availability of capital or just the idea being so great e.t.c. too much to account for scientifically. And not repeatable it seems.
They bias towards multiple founders because running any business on your own is hard. You can collect this anecdote from almost every solo founder. It requires such a breadth of skills that is rarely in just one person. You don't have time to specialise in multiple non related areas. You need help.
What can you do about it?
Successful solo founders tend to hire very quickly so if you're doing well and you're in a position to start hiring, do it, then apply to accelerators or whatever with your hired team. Or don't and just continue working on your business like a normal person.
I use this for prototyping new apps a lot, where I'm not sure on the best design. Then I migrate to proper database columns when I'm sure of something. Feels like the best of both worlds to me.
Yes CoCs are great, but be careful how you use them. Committees wielding their CoCs to the detrement of others is shameful. They give CoCs a bad name. Maybe there should be a 2nd committee, with a CoC for committees using them maliciously, a CoCCuM if you will.
https://workroll.com - started in June, turns over $2k a month. Built whilst automating my own freelance sales work flow and figured others could make use of it too. It saves me about a week a month from doing my own lead generation. Been trying to get funding but had no luck. Too early.
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6 years working as a remote Designer and Front-end developer, mostly for start-ups based in the USA. I work EST time. Most experienced with creating / re-designing UI and UX and integrating it into a back-end (Rails) or building a front-end (Angular, React) that hooks into an API. My last role was CTO of a video marketplace.
The first time I got scared about my migraines and decided to do something was after my first silent migraine. Before this I had just had them about twice a year lasting roughly 3 days.
My silent migraine started with pins and needles in my tongue, speading slowly to the rest of my jaw and then finger tips. Then I lost sight in the parts of my vision where I was focused, it became grey and bright around the edges. I still had peripheral vision. The last symtpom was what I could only describe as temporary dyslexia. I was reading sentences aloud and skipping whole words or moving them from the start to the end. It sounded like gibberish but in my head it somewhow made sense.
I started to panic until some frantic googling brought up these types of migraines. Which is when I instantly recognised all my symptoms as familiar but without the headache and light sensitivity seemed very alien and very scary.
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Location: Sheffield, UK
Remote: Yes (I have a separate, dedicated office in Sheffield)
Willing to relocate: Possibly
Technologies: Designer & Developer: HTML5, CSS (Sass/Less), Javascript (jQuery, Angular, Backbone, Cordova), Integration into Ruby on Rails and similar frameworks, worked with API's.
Portfolio: http://mitchbryson.com
Email: [email protected]
Here's what I do best: - Planning: wireframes, on paper or in Balsamiq - Concepts: Photoshop mock-ups of pages and flows - Build: HTML, CSS and JS. I prefer HAML, SASS and CoffeeScript - Integration: I can integrate into any app or framework.
I've been a designer/developer since 2002. For the last 5 years, I've been focused on helping start-ups design and build their products.
Thanks!
Location: Sheffield, UK
Remote: Yes (I have a separate, dedicated office in Sheffield)
Willing to relocate: Possibly
Technologies: Designer & Developer: HTML5, CSS (Sass/Less), Javascript (jQuery, Angular, Backbone, Cordova), Integration into Ruby on Rails and similar frameworks, worked with API's.
Portfolio: http://mitchbryson.com
Email: [email protected]
Here's what I do best: - Planning: wireframes, on paper or in Balsamiq - Concepts: Photoshop mock-ups of pages and flows - Build: HTML, CSS and JS. I prefer HAML, SASS and CoffeeScript - Integration: I can integrate into any app or framework.
I've been a designer/developer since 2002. For the last 5 years, I've been focused on helping start-ups design and build their products.
Thanks!
I'm a UI designer and a front-end developer. Here's some examples of my work… http://blendmo.de
Here's what I do best:
- Planning: wireframes, on paper or in Balsamiq
- Concepts: Photoshop mock-ups of pages and flows
- Build: HTML, CSS and JS. I prefer HAML, SASS and CoffeeScript
- Integration: I can integrate into any app or framework.
I've been a designer/developer since 2002. For the last 3 years, I've been focused on helping start-ups design and build their products.
They bias towards multiple founders because running any business on your own is hard. You can collect this anecdote from almost every solo founder. It requires such a breadth of skills that is rarely in just one person. You don't have time to specialise in multiple non related areas. You need help.
What can you do about it? Successful solo founders tend to hire very quickly so if you're doing well and you're in a position to start hiring, do it, then apply to accelerators or whatever with your hired team. Or don't and just continue working on your business like a normal person.