6 Skills Every Startup Team Needs

So many tech startups begin the same way: One founder, one dream and a plan to make it happen. Most businesses stay that way – there are many more solo entrepreneurs than business owners with employees. But to succeed, most startups need a much broader set of skills and experience.

If you intend to build a scalable business, you know you can’t do it alone. If you plan to get funded, you need to build a team – a complete, kickass team – that will both get the job done and impress the money people. And you need to do it sooner rather than later.

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So what does it actually take to build a kickass startup team?

Rachel Blankstein

I asked someone who knows. Rachel Blankstein has launched two tech startups, including her current business Comparz, a website where independent users review web-based software. She sold her first tech startup econfidant.com to a larger technology company. Blankstein shared her best tips for hiring a kickass team – lessons she learned “the hard way”:

1. Every team needs at least two key players: a technical founder (or scientific founder for a science-related startup, or a product expert in a non-technical/non-scientific company) and a revenue driver