Startup School

Found some really cool advice meted out to developers/hackers here. Few interesting lessons while building a startup:

We all know that Type A people attract/hire other Type A and Type B attract Type C. Interestingly Marc Andreessen goes a step further about how hiring not so good ("crappy') people impacts organizational performance over the long run - he likes to call this the law of crappy people. This is how it goes. Straight from the man himself - "The Law of Crappy People kicks in because the worst employee at any level becomes the de facto standard for that level. Your executives sit around the table. Some EVP wants to promote one of his or her directors to vice president. Or maybe they want to bring in someone new. Someone at the table says, 'That person isn't good enough,' to which the first person responds, 'Hey, you've got Joe Schmo, who is a bonehead. This guy is better than Joe.' So the guy who hired or promoted Joe Schmo shuts up."

I have to agree as I have myself noticed this in my professional career.