[startupmum]

Yes. Single founders can build successful companies. It is what keeps me going. I am not successful yet, but I have been at it for 4 years, and I haven't had the fight kicked out of me yet.

What makes it harder for me is that I am not a technical founder. I am a product founder with vision. I can rent programmers, but I can't rent vision. I can't rent hunger. I can't rent ambition. I can't rent tenacity. These are the things that a founder brings to the table. There's nothing that guarantees that a crowd of 4 founders has this in greater force than a single motivated founder. If I had listened to advice like this, I would not have invested my life's savings to build a consumer proposition currently in private beta, and already making a couple of bucks a month per user.

You sound like a motivated and hard working person who is totally into what you're doing. Why care what other people think?

Whether you're lone or part of a team, entrepreneurship is a lonely road. Only your own faith and strength will give you the staying power. And as long as you're not doggedly chasing a poor idea or paying the price of being a lone wolf with poor execution...