[Smerity]

Focus. Both from my own ventures now and from start-ups I've worked with previously in the past, I see focus as one of the largest needs of a start-up.

Without focus, successful start-ups move on to too many fields, dividing their resources amongst too many projects. Early start-ups can distract themselves by losing sight of the primary issue they're aiming to solve and losing traction on those core concepts can be a death knell.

Sadly there's no easy way to outsource focus :)

[hatter10_6]

But there are ways to outsource the chores, right? What would be some of the chores that you could potentially outsource? I'd say this would count as a need.

[steventruong]

Most startups in the earliest stages can't afford to outsource anything.