Build a Team that Ships

http://startupboy.com/2012/04/27/build-a-team-that-ships/

We want a team of self-managing people who ship code.

• Keep the team small. All doers, no talkers. Absolutely no middle managers. All BD via APIs.
• Outsource everything that isn’t core. Resist the urge to pick up that last dollar. Founders do Customer Service.
• People choose what to work on. Better they ship what they want than not ship what you want.
• No tasks longer than one week. You have to ship something into live production every week – worst case, two weeks. If you just joined, ship something.
• Peer-management. Promise what you’ll do in the coming week on internal Yammer. Deliver – or publicly break your promise – next week.
• One person per project. Get help from others, but you and you alone are accountable.