This is only relevant assuming... - The founder is not themselves a developer. - The founder needs to hire more developers. - The founder can't afford to liv

This is only relevant assuming... - The founder is not themselves a developer. - The founder needs to hire more developers. - The founder can't afford to live on a shoestring budget while building the product (and doesn't have another income stream). This is where developer founders have an advantage. I am US based and I know business and I am a principal level code / architect. I can build and launch a product in a month or less working on it at nights using just sweat equity and besides the time cost, all I need are to pay legal fees ($2000 to register the business, write terms of service, etc), a domain name ($10), and some servers ($100 max if I don't feel like optimizing for cost). In fact I have... my side projects bring in more income to me than most developers make in a year and they cost me < $2000 to launch. No I won't say what they are on a throw away account because it will reveal who I am.