Re:Is Three Founders One Too Many?
by smirksirlot on Thursday September 27, 2012 @11:15AM
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Curious - are you following the Hacker, Hustler, Designer model?
I have never heard that particular phrase before, so the answer is probably not.
It's more like Hacker, Business Guy ("Hustler" sounds a little pejorative), and Sales Guy. But I'd point out that I consider us a B2B media company that makes clever use of technology, more than a "technology startup." Nailing enterprise sales is crucial to our success, which is probably not the case for consumer internet startups (or for startups that are, uh, not yet trying to make money).
Is this some kind of well known model? What are the others?
In the legal world, firms align around "Finders, Minders, and Grinders". Finders are the well-connected guys/gals who bring in business. Minders are the intelligent ones who hash out the hard problems. And grinders get all the routine work done at a fast pace. Maybe this applies to tech?
Is two founders also one too many? Sometimes! At least with one founder you actually solve the problem of founders not agreeing on a course of action (which surely is a bigger probably two founders than an odd number like three).
I'll concede that I'm biased, but my startup has three founders and there is absolutely no doubt in my mind that we would be worse off with fewer people.