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by posix_compliant 2904 days ago
You could make 16 teams of 6 and give each one a different startup idea. You could then create some metric for success and then choose to continue to work on the one with the most success.
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I could. I’ve run very large development groups. It takes a lot of time and effort to get it right and with 16 groups of 6 it would be the same overhead, if not more. It just wouldn’t be for me, that’s all. I think I’d be much more successful with one strategic team of 6. If you can manage 16 teams working on projects for 100 days, by all means go for it.
That's great! You could secretly give some teams the same idea and compare approaches and results afterward.