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Re:Two creators are not always better than one by kyleashipley on Wednesday January 16, 2019 @10:46AM (#18921794)
From the article:

>The research is based on a survey of creators for thousands of Kickstarter projects between 2009 and May 2015.

From the paper:

>This suggests that the taken-for-granted assumption among scholars that entrepreneurship is best performed by teams should be reevaluated, with implications for theories of team performance and entrepreneurial strategy.

The claims in the paper are pretty limited and based on a questionably representative sample. Extrapolating to "solo founders are better" seems like a leap at this stage. The results seem interesting and worthy of further evaluation, though!

Re:Two creators are not always better than one by mkong1 on Wednesday January 16, 2019 @12:28PM (#18922783)
How many high-growth companies came out of Kickstarter? The ones that jump to mind are Oculus and Pebble, but I can't think of others.
Re:Two creators are not always better than one by mojuba on Wednesday January 16, 2019 @03:34PM (#18924838)
Interestingly enough, both Oculus and Pebble were started by sole founders. Others even though officially titled "co-founders" joined later if I'm not mistaken.
Re:Two creators are not always better than one by jwilliams on Wednesday January 16, 2019 @07:44PM (#18927271)
Off the top of my head I’d add Lifx and Nuraphone.