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Re: Find a cofounder or continue as a single founder...decisions decisions.

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I saw a TED talk a few days ago (sorry I can't find it now) that said that there has never been a person in the history of mankind who could build a product, manage the company and manage the money. Most people can do one thing very good, some people can do all three things poorly, but no one can do all three well. You need to find a co-founder if you want to seriously attempt a startup. This is all coming from a sol…

A single person can't do all 3 of those things, that makes perfect sense. A single person could, however, hire people to take care of some of those issues. Is that correct or just my being naive?

Yes, but you need money to hire those people. Where will you get the money? You won't get any investor money until you get a team, you won't get a team until you get money. Those other people are going to have to be co-founders.

Re: Find a cofounder or continue as a single founder...decisions decisions.

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A startup is tooo much work for a single founder. A team of 2 is ok (at least). You can hire someone on the technical side, But at least you need a dedicated co-founder on the business development side( yes BD is API centric now, not people centric, but there should be an Owner for this). This is required to scale up your business. The actual growth of the companty has to be on the side of Gaining more business from customers, Not on the technical side, That you can give to someone else who work for you. But in the beggining you need to know how to do it.
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