Our startup is failing, but we have a powerful team

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Posting from a throwaway: Our startup is failing. Or at least it will if current acquisition talks fall through. We're working for a niche 3-year-old social network with a well-developed API and platform for web, iOS, and Android. Our userbase may have peaked somewhere around 60,000 unique users. W've built some great software and iterated at break-neck speed, but the business model may just not be good enough. We all know one thing works extremely well in our company: the dev team (including our great designer/co-founder/CTO). We are lean. One UX/UI designer, one API dev, one front-end web dev, one iOS dev, and one Android dev. We're all cross-disciplined and can help each other. We've all got a good eye for platform-specific design. We work extremely well together, and our first choice if the business fails is to somehow stay together as a team. My question to HN: In the real world, what is the best way for a great team to stick together? We've

Published 11 Jun 2014
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