rrussell - 3:25 pm on Dec 19, 2008 (gmt 0)

Good post. Another thing that I encourage everyone to consider the people you surround yourself with.

A person I respect greatly(and have deference for his having sold multiple businesses for over 100m) told me something that changed my perspective greatly when it comes to projects you choose to run with.

Choose who you want to work with, then choose what.

Great people can get rich with an average idea, mediocre people will likely struggle with even a great idea.

By that, I mean, it takes more than a coder or a graphic designer or a smooth talker to build successful projects over the longrun. I think the problem buckworks mentions grows exponentially when people start taking the attitude of "I can do it all myself, I want to retain 100% ownership." What's better, 100% of 100k or 5% of 100m?

Just food for thought. Merry Christmas all.