Before you, your cofounder and your team came together to work on the startup, did you "communicate" to your cofounder and/or team that you might/will consider moving to a different city if the need arises? Did you guys talk through any such possibility if the startup looks promising in the future? If not, then do you think its justifiable to only hold them accountable for not agreeing to move with you?
Teams are made up of people, not ideas alone. They may have families and other responsibilities which might be more important to them. So if you think that they do not share your vision, then try and talk to each one of them individually and understand what's holding them back. And if its really not going to work out, then be polite and express them clearly that you care about the future of this startup a great deal, and you will have to find a team member who shares your vision. But be humble, and stay humble. Nobody likes a cranky selfish boss. Good luck!
Hmmm communicating. Sounds like your making a statement there. Why?
"... Each person should just do what they need to without anyone telling them ... If that sounds like a recipe for chaos, think about a soccer team ... David Beckham if there were any language problems at Real Madrid, since the players were from about eight different countries. He said it was never an issue, because everyone was so good they never had to talk. They all just did the right thing. ..."
It's "bleedin obvious" that at some stage you might have to move. So the requirement for communication bit could be an indication of co-founders (3) "Not determined enough" or (9) "Family to support" or (11) "Not ready for commitment".
Sure it's a relationship. But the type of relationship bw co-founders, team and customers is very different. If your co-founders, fellow hackers, the ones that should understand the implications of startups the most, balk at such a simple hurdle to start a startup. Communication is not the problem, commitment (or insert N other reasons is).
A very different relationship (more communicative) exists bw staff who are not the core of the team at the start. It goes unsaid that the on-going relationship with the customers is paramount.
But to misunderstand the idea that founders & co-founders should explicitly have to communicate such fundamental concepts as "we might have to move sometime to achieve 'Foo'" or "we might have to actually do 'bar' to get to the next hurdle is fundamentally different from communicating to hires or customers.
can I run feedity over news.yc? or turn the news.yc site to rss. I gave it a go but couldn't get a result. It would be useful to try because it's a pain scraping lots of different nyc pages.
... try again. Ahh now I got it. The first time I didn't select a category. Is it possible to get an rss result back without selecting a category? (like select your own?) as the categories restrict (reduce the returns). I want everything back.
... now I understand. I've tried to do something that's only found in the "Advanced Refine" menu. Would it be a good idea to add an "Advanced" link at the front page?
... aggh the Advanced Refine cr@ps out on my blocks. I'm trying this bit because I've been hacking with BeautifulSoup pretty much doing exactly what the refine is doing. Its an absolute pain. One idea to make selection of the blocks easier is to parse the html doc, then render the structure as an outline visually (like HTML Validator or below) ....
table tag
+ td child tag 1
+ td child tag 2
+ tr child 2,1
When I was trying to parse pages the ability to see the page + markup overlayed with the structure HTML Validator ( https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/249 ) made it 10 times easier for me to select exactly "what" I wanted to parse.
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Before you, your cofounder and your team came together to work on the startup, did you "communicate" to your cofounder and/or team that you might/will consider moving to a different city if the need arises? Did you guys talk through any such possibility if the startup looks promising in the future? If not, then do you think its justifiable to only hold them accountable for not agreeing to move with you?
Teams are made up of people, not ideas alone. They may have families and other responsibilities which might be more important to them. So if you think that they do not share your vision, then try and talk to each one of them individually and understand what's holding them back. And if its really not going to work out, then be polite and express them clearly that you care about the future of this startup a great deal, and you will have to find a team member who shares your vision. But be humble, and stay humble. Nobody likes a cranky selfish boss. Good luck!
"... did you "communicate" ..."
Hmmm communicating. Sounds like your making a statement there. Why?
"... Each person should just do what they need to without anyone telling them ... If that sounds like a recipe for chaos, think about a soccer team ... David Beckham if there were any language problems at Real Madrid, since the players were from about eight different countries. He said it was never an issue, because everyone was so good they never had to talk. They all just did the right thing. ..."
It's "bleedin obvious" that at some stage you might have to move. So the requirement for communication bit could be an indication of co-founders (3) "Not determined enough" or (9) "Family to support" or (11) "Not ready for commitment".
All reasons to 'not (not) start a startup' with them ~ http://www.paulgraham.com/notnot.html
OMG! Here come The Commandments!
Imo, a startup is a relationship, where you need communication - with your team, as with your customers.
" The Commandments! "
I like that.
Sure it's a relationship. But the type of relationship bw co-founders, team and customers is very different. If your co-founders, fellow hackers, the ones that should understand the implications of startups the most, balk at such a simple hurdle to start a startup. Communication is not the problem, commitment (or insert N other reasons is).
A very different relationship (more communicative) exists bw staff who are not the core of the team at the start. It goes unsaid that the on-going relationship with the customers is paramount.
But to misunderstand the idea that founders & co-founders should explicitly have to communicate such fundamental concepts as "we might have to move sometime to achieve 'Foo'" or "we might have to actually do 'bar' to get to the next hurdle is fundamentally different from communicating to hires or customers.
BTW can you point http://www.feedity.com to news.ycombinator?
>> BTW can you point http://www.feedity.com to news.ycombinator?
I didn't get what you mean by that.
"... I didn't get what you mean by that. ..."
can I run feedity over news.yc? or turn the news.yc site to rss. I gave it a go but couldn't get a result. It would be useful to try because it's a pain scraping lots of different nyc pages.
... try again. Ahh now I got it. The first time I didn't select a category. Is it possible to get an rss result back without selecting a category? (like select your own?) as the categories restrict (reduce the returns). I want everything back.
... now I understand. I've tried to do something that's only found in the "Advanced Refine" menu. Would it be a good idea to add an "Advanced" link at the front page?
... aggh the Advanced Refine cr@ps out on my blocks. I'm trying this bit because I've been hacking with BeautifulSoup pretty much doing exactly what the refine is doing. Its an absolute pain. One idea to make selection of the blocks easier is to parse the html doc, then render the structure as an outline visually (like HTML Validator or below) .... table tag
When I was trying to parse pages the ability to see the page + markup overlayed with the structure HTML Validator ( https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/249 ) made it 10 times easier for me to select exactly "what" I wanted to parse.Thanks :)