2. What matters is not ideas,
but the people who have them.
Importance Good people can fix bad ideas,
of the Team but good ideas can't save bad people.
-- Paul Graham, Y Combinator
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3. Really Important Folks
Product / Technical
Roles of the Fairly Important Folks
Co-Founding Sales / Marketing
Team
Less Important Folks
Business / Numbers / Operations / MBAs
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5. Networking
Networking
How Do You
Find Them?
Networking
Networking
Everything Else
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6. Marquee names
Big Mistakes
Snap decisions
(Especially for Legal stuff
Startups)
Headhunters
Not checking references
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7. Guy Kawasaki
Reality Check
Further
Reading
The Art of the Start
Paul Graham
paulgraham.com
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8. Startup happiness is all about
getting to solve problems you care about
More alongside people you like and respect.
Wisdom
-- Dharmesh Shah, HubSpot
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