http://www.grid7.com/archives/95_faw-5-dan-bricklin-of-software-arts.html Build something. BIGGER. Fri, 21 Nov 2008 00:31:30 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0 http://www.grid7.com/archives/95_faw-5-dan-bricklin-of-software-arts.html#comment-5527 Wed, 09 May 2007 21:19:44 +0000 http://www.grid7.com/archives/95_faw-5-dan-bricklin-of-software-arts.html#comment-5527 [...] Brady said: “You always hear ‘Never go into business with friends.’ But with the first 20 hires, everyone knew each other. Consequently there was a high level of trust. Everyone was young. It was pretty much everyone’s first job.” Hiring people that knew each other meant there was maximum trust early on and they could focus on the product. Like the VisiCalc story, this allowed them to be very nimble and waste no overhead on formal procedures or establishing trust with new hires. [...] […] Brady said: “You always hear ‘Never go into business with friends.’ But with the first 20 hires, everyone knew each other. Consequently there was a high level of trust. Everyone was young. It was pretty much everyone’s first job.” Hiring people that knew each other meant there was maximum trust early on and they could focus on the product. Like the VisiCalc story, this allowed them to be very nimble and waste no overhead on formal procedures or establishing trust with new hires. […]

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