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OpsWare launched at the height of the dot-com bubble, and survived through the bubble's bursting. We might be facing similar economic turbulence today. How did OpsWare respond to the changing market conditions, and how did it affect the company?
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There is opinion among some hackers that people with "MBAs" are not that important when starting out. In your opinion, who are the 2 most important types of people to have on your team when starting out? Designers, more programmers, Marketers, Operations guru etc?
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3 most important skills you lacked when you started first company and what problems you faced because of those.
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Say I come up with an idea, do my market research, find no one has done it yet, and get to work on implementation. In the meantime, someone unveils a site that does the same thing. Oops--race condition! What should I do? This actually happened to some friends of mine. (They gave up.)
A variant: say I come up with a good idea and find it's *already* been done? Should I try to do it better (a la Facebook), or should I just move on to the next idea?
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The traditional 'hacker' approach is to build a prototype, and throw it out to users. Is this the most efficient way to do it? Are there other ways to get your idea in front of users, to see how they react?
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Or in other words: should investors' opinions be taken into account while creating a startup, or does this distract from the focus on users?
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With the insane amount of social networks out there these days, I would assume given the simple tools you've provided, people have came up with some creative ideas.
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You mentioned that even though Jim Clark had come off his huge Silicon Graphics success, people were still afraid to join him in his new venture (all but you, primarily b/c you were 22 years old). What changed that made people not so scared to join up later?
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Hindsight is rarely 20/20. It's far too easy to claim causality where none exists. After all, plenty of the "good" traits of successful startups are present in ones that eventually fail.
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How do you suggest a hacker engages with potential partners to develop an idea at the pre-company stage when there are no legal safeguards, and when NDA's feel inappropriate?
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