My company (marketpublique.com) is founded by three designers. Advantages: we get the web, we get design, and we can handle some of the development & technical stuff ourselves. Disadvantages: all the business stuff is REALLY aggravating scutwork, and the three of us became designers to avoid that kind of work. Since there's no "bness guy", all three of us have to do the boring stuff as best we can. Recommendation: three founders is a really great number; small enough to be nimble, unstable enough to prevent deadlocks. If we run into trouble there's always a tie-breaking vote to help us make a decision and move on.
On Sun, Jul 19, 2009 at 4:58 AM, Alfredo Veneto <[email protected]>wrote: > I'm looking for examples of designers who are founders of online > companies like guys in 37 Signals, Wufoo or Slideshare? > > Is it an advantage? How does it feel to be one? (No ROI reports, no > institutionalization! A seat in the board!) :) > > PS: Design consultants are not counted. > > - Alfredo Veneto > > > ________________________________________________________________ > Reply to this thread at ixda.org > http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=43859 > > ________________________________________________________________ > Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! > To post to this list ....... [email protected] > Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe > List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines > List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help > -- _________________________ http://www.marketpublique.com http://www.jonathanpberger.com 718.930.2165 This email is: [*] bloggable [ ] ask first [ ] private ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [email protected] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
