It’s funny… looking back at all the failures i’ve had in the past three years, it’s definitely come clear to me that the single biggest contributing factor has been a poorly constructed team. This doesn’t mean that any individual on the team was a bad person. It just meant that several things were not in alignment.

Here are some of the issues that i’ve come across so far:

- Timeframe: We were just on different time frames. I didn’t want to wait weeks for things to happen, I wanted them to happen in days. This may have been because I only work a part-time job, which allows me to spend time on my entrepreneurial ventures.

- Time: This is much different than timeframe, but they are tied together. I believe that each founder of the team needs to be willing to put in the same amount of time into the project.

- Skills: find people with complimentary skill sets. as a techie, alot of the times I think I can do it myself. While it may be the case, in reality doing it myself would take longer. having team members who have skills you don’t (marketing, customer service, UI/UX, sale)

- Hustle: this is probably related to time, but everyone on the team MUST have the same hustle. What is hustle? it’s doing whatever is necessary to get the job done. If I have to make 100 calls in a day, you just do it. I’ve found that when I have a different level of hustle with a co-founder, animosity forms because it feels like i’m doing more work than the other person.

Hopefully, this helps some other people out there trying to find the right team to work with and some of the things to look out for. Feel free to email me with your thoughts and comments!