Startups Anonymous Est. 2013 · Read-only archive
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How important are team members?

I am creating a company, but most of the work will be outsourced till I find people to be part of the team.

My question is do people care if a company was created by just one person and is the only member of the company?

Or, do they feel better when more people are involved?

6 answers from the community

AAnonymous· Sep 10, 2015

They won't care. Outsourced workers just want your money and are not really interested in whether there is one or a thousand people associated with the company.

AAnonymous· Sep 10, 2015

Author: i was actually referring to how potential customers react if a company was run by only one person. i am asking because i thinking of removing the team section on my website.

AAnonymous· Sep 10, 2015

What kind of customers? Enterprise?

Regular customers dont care but investors I think would have a problem.

AAnonymous· Sep 12, 2015

I began a business at the age of 25. It is VERY VERY hard running a business alone. A team is absolutely essential for your success in business. Even if it only consits if one or two others.

AAnonymous· Sep 14, 2015

Author: I couldn't agree more, but people don't share my vision so I haven't been able to find a team.

AAnonymous· Sep 17, 2015

This is such a freaking hard call to make and something I've been struggling with myself...I was so fucking lonely and depressed running my startup that I said okay I have to wait burn a little cash and find quality people immediately. It's been 2 weeks since the new team members have come on board and it's been incredibly rough trying to get everyone to play together nicely. The things that I think have helped so much are 1) the opportunity is so obvious and there's almost no more work to be done 2) everything is transparent and open 3) everyone has experience in startups so there is an incredibly high degree of maturity.