Tons of advice out there on how to best start a startup, just like you can get advice on how to do everything in your life (relationships, work, health, finances, and on and on). Well, much of it is intuitive, but not all, and it is always nice to have validation that you are doing things correctly – at least in one person’s opinion.

Eric’s article he shared “How to start a startup”, mentioned below, is a very good one. The one thing that stood out for me in the assertion that everyone in the startup should be described as an animal, in terms of their devotion and passion for their role in the startup – which is very coincidental:

Steve’s nickname is Fanimal.

Chris is always talking about ‘cool’ animals – he tried to rally around the name MovieLemur but that thankfully didn’t pass.

Stan, Josh, and Chris are all coding and dev animals.

Dave G. is a search animal.

Dave B. is an architect animal.

Eric is a viral animal.

John is just plain animalistic.

and I’m not sure I’m an animal at all, but you might say I’m a business animal – which the author of the article puts down quite a bit, especially since I have an MBA.

Of course as we expand the team we should only look to hire animals…

Matt