Founders Lessons Learned - Part 2: Team

1. Succeeding alone is very hard, it is all about team work.
2. Having a good team is half the way to success.
3. Harmony between team members is a MUST for success.
4. When you are searching for founders to share the idea with you; look for people that have skills you don’t have; don’t look for people who are the same like you.
5. Own your team by:
1. Treat them good.
2. Treat them like family.
3. Care / look after them.
4. Always listen, maybe an idea from youngest team member be the company next hot product / feature.
6. Acquisitions: It is a painful experience as merges cause lots of people to be laid off, this is the case all the time, and this is the whole idea of merges. If your company pass by this situation try to make it as short as possible to continue doing business.

Founders Lessons Learned - Intro

Learning from others is the best in order not to re-invent the wheel and fall in the same mistakes others already did. For founders, it is a MUST as lots can't afford bad start.

I have collected some lessons learned from my readings, & experience. I summarized them in bullet points in the following blog posts:

1. Part 1: Idea
2. Part 2: Team
3. Part 3: Business Plan
4. Part 4: Venture Capitalists
5. Part 5: Architecture
6. Part 6: Project / Product development
7. Part 7: Operations
8. Part 8: Marketing

The following are the references for such tips:

1. Book: Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days. ISBN-10: 1590597141 | ISBN-13: 978-1590597149
2. Magazine article: Arrajol Magazine interview with Greg Booth, Zippo President and CEO.

I will keep this post and related posts updated whenever I read more books or learn new experience hopping this will help some founders / start-ups. Also, I'm open for input from readers as comments and I will update the posts as well.