The 10 Worst Partners For Your Start-Up

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9 points·kungfudoi··11 comments

I love reading this:

"Mr. CEO feels compelled to tell everyone that he is a CEO within 30 seconds of meeting him--even if his company is worth less than the paper on which his business card is printed."

And then the author's byline:

"Scott D. Gerber is Entrepreneur.com's Young Entrepreneur columnist and CEO of Gerber Entertainment, a brand development and venture management company that specializes in the entertainment, Internet, media and marketing industries."

#11 The one that writes lists like these.

It's a funny idea. Take the lowest common denominator linkbait formula, the "top 10 list", and combine it with "startup advice". Bam, instant front page.

Quick, someone do a "Which founder are you" quiz.

Zing!

So, going through this guy's list pretty much eliminates everyone I know. What does that leave me with? Him?

It eliminates "pretty much" everyone I know, too. But not everyone... and that might just be the reality of the situation.

So how many of these do we see this in ourselves?

That's the first thing that I realized while reading this... these aren't necessarily people that you don't want in your startup, but rather characteristics you and others on your team want to suppress within. I think everyone can agree that most people have a little bit of all these Mr so-and-so's in them.

I see Mr. Dreamer in myself for sure. I have a billion ideas for what I'm going to do Some Day (TM) when I've got money to burn. However, I use it as a long-term goal to keep me going when the going gets tough, rather than letting it get in the way. Usually.

sometimes I can be mr. prefectionist

Funny I was reading this and thinking that this could somehow also apply when choosing a girlfriend or a life partner.

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