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This line of thinking is failure waiting to happen. Sooner or later, a team of engineers needs to have the value of its time-consuming product quantified. If
by indiejade 17y ago
This line of thinking is failure waiting to happen.
Sooner or later, a team of engineers needs to have the value of its time-consuming product quantified. If you hire somebody who is on your side, then the variable is certain to go up, and a business person will end up making everybody on the engineering team more money by adding a quantifiable value to the efforts of the collective. Business people are engineers' advocates. Failing to hire a business person means product will almost certainly get "ripped off" or valued less than its market value, at the detriment of every body on the team.
- dannyr 17y agoindiejade, Do you really think startups should make it a priority to hire a business person over engineers in the early stages? The article is about hiring the first 5 engineers but do not take is as do not hire a business person. Eventually, a startup would definitely need one but in the early stages, a startup can survive without a business person. Can you name a startup that was founded without an engineer? I can name you numerous startups that were founded without a business person easily though.