While interesting and worthy of debate, the title makes it feel a lot more general than reality (this is a study of Kickstarter companies, so goes with the huge sample bias of “stuff that gets put on Kickstarter”).
As a solo founder, I think people always love the idea but don’t acknowledge how lonely it is compared to having at least one other founder (not to mention complementary skills etc).
Most high growth businesses go to zero as time continues, so while there are outliers the majority (in number) case still remains a zero outcome, not more or less revenue (let alone exit $).
NodeJS / React / Angular Fullstack Javascript Engineer | Sked Social | REMOTE | Full stack or Front end | Fulltime
Sked Social helps customers improve their visual marketing on social media. Our customers range from small businesses to global media, fashion and retail brands – and everything inbetween.
We're a fully remote team of 25, bootstrapped, profitable, and growing at a decent but manageable pace.
Timezone needs to be compatible with US Eastern (our head of engineering is there) but otherwise location doesn't matter, we hire anywhere.
Sked Social | REMOTE | Full stack or Front end | Fulltime
Sked Social helps customers improve their visual marketing on social media. Our customers range from small businesses to global media, fashion and retail brands – and everything inbetween.
We're a fully remote team of 25, bootstrapped, profitable, and growing at a decent but manageable pace.
Timezone needs to be compatible with US Eastern (our head of engineering is there) but otherwise location doesn't matter, we hire anywhere.
We have two engineering roles hiring currently.
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FRONT-END: AngularJS (1) + React
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Frontend focussed role, looking at improving our existing Angular 1 webapp and migrating us progressively to React. Be our frontend expert!
suggestion: surround yourself with people who constantly challenge you to do better. Everyone has times that they feel are "lost" but the time you need to remind yourself of is the moment that you realised you weren't doing what you wanted to be doing, or that something needed to change.
It wasn't until I started to spend time with people who I knew would ask hard questions and challenge me to keep going that I started to actually get shit done. Happy to chat if that'd help, but don't worry about time – my experience is that failed startups mean someone has a far broader level of experience than even they think they have.
And I'm one of those 27yo's who many people think have "made it" but still have the same sense of crippling "should I have done that differently" / "I squandered my youth" fear. It never goes away.
I have been pondering something like this for ages, as most solutions seem to be insanely expensive. Found this though recently fwiw http://activereports.grapecity.com/server/
Schedugram | Product Manager / biz analyst | Melbourne, Australia | REMOTE http://schedugr.am/
Help us create tools that our customers want to use.
We are a growing SaaS company that helps our customers schedule content to Instagram. We're looking at our options for the next stage of our growth, and need a product management specialist to help us best understand how we can meet our customers' needs.
Your role will be to speak with customers about a few concepts we are considering to improve our customers' working lives. You'll use a combination of surveys, interviews/calls and any other techniques required to gather intel and then work with our team to identify what a solution to their challenges might look like.
Could be that the data that is listed was previously on the profile but not currently (or matched from another service) vs acquired directly.