As a former technical founder? The advice I would give my past self is "get a business co-founder." - reading business books and business advice is all well

As a former technical founder? The advice I would give my past self is "get a business co-founder." - reading business books and business advice is all well and good, but you actually need someone who is good at that sort of thing if you want your company to do well. I don't know how you evaluate a business co-founder when you don't have those skills yourself. Because of that? When I was a founder, I avoided getting a business co-founder, even turned down several that would probably have been great. But that's the thing, without that side of the house, it's really hard to get the company to go anywhere, even when everything else lines up. I mean, evaluating people who provide skills you don't have is hard; that's why companies without a technical person on their founding team have such a hard time. So it's really hard to pick a good business co-founder. It's one of those decisions that will almost certainly kill the company if you choose poorly. But... there are a lot of decisions that will kill the company (or worse) if you choose poorly.