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Single- vs Co-Founders: it's like Star Wars (yieldthought.com)
14 points by moconnor on Sept 20, 2010 | hide | past | favorite | 5 comments


So lame:

If you're building a business by yourself it's probably a cutesy widdle lifestyle business.

But if you're doing it with a co-founder you're shooting for the moon!!!


No no no, the article says this exactly the other way around:

If you want to build an organically-growing, self-funded or lifestyle business (including, say, 37 signals' model) then going it alone is fine.

If you want to take on high-stakes, high-pressure VC funding and shoot for the moon then get a co-founder.

This is not logically equivalent to your statements.


Would you rather be Han Solo or The Emperor? That's actually a really good question.

At least I'm sure I don't want to be one of the stormtroopers.


Eric Forman lives.


Upvoted for astonishing accuracy! Also, I need a haircut :-/




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