Can a start-up be founded not by 2-3 people who know each other in advance but by a group of random people as in case of community supported Open-Source projects?<p>The advantage of the latter I see is the fact you don&#x27;t have to care about other people&#x27;s background, experience, whatever as long as they bring enough value in a form of contribution. No need for vesting and cliffs. You contribute something, you get X shares.<p>A Github like platform for collaborative bootstrapping of start-ups could be created. Unlike the founderdating services that marry off multiple founders into each other so they can create something together, in this model founders are married into ideas&#x2F;projects directly.<p>In your opinion how viable is this model?
Ask HN: Can a startup be bootstrapped collaboratively by a group of people?