[pg]

No, that's not what I meant. What kills most startups is that they build something lame-- something users see and think "meh" and click on Back. It's not ability to solve problems that makes the difference, but what problems the founders choose to solve.

Friction between founders is somewhat of a threat to startups, but small in comparison with making something users don't care about.

[keiretsu]

so i would assume that you do not hold hastily put together teams with less regards as long as the thing they're building is not lame?

[pg]

I'd still worry more about an ad hoc group of founders than one that had been friends for a while, but if I had to choose between an ad hoc group with a kickass project and a group of established friends with nothing, I'd probably choose the first.

The thing is, we rarely see ad hoc groups with kickass projects. I think this is because such groups are less likely to build good things.