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Two things I picked up from this: 1) It's really import to have software chops as a startup founder. Top Hat Monocle started off with a CTO co-founder that was
by jskopek 16y ago
Two things I picked up from this:
1) It's really import to have software chops as a startup founder. Top Hat Monocle started off with a CTO co-founder that was dedicated to development, but it seems like coding took up most of the time for all three founders. There's a lot to be said for selling early, but unless you have the funding to hire developers from day 1 you'll be moving much slower.
2) axiom's job description never changed all that much over the last 18 months; it's more just the distribution of time. That's seems like something that can be easily modified to suit the CEO's experience by hiring the right people.
- dinedal 16y agoSomething else can be gained from the first point, and that as a start up, at first, your priority is to get something that you can actually sell and market. There's no point spending energy marketing or selling something that doesn't exist yet. No point in having a website about it either. Code your product/service first, because without a product/service you can't sell it, and without sales you have no income.
- ookblah 16y agoI have to half-disagree with this, you CAN "sell" something that doesn't exist and sometimes it's a good way to test interest and ideas. You don't want to sell complete vapor (as in get a lot of interest then be like, oops now wait 4-5 months or whatever) but you don't want to build something that nobody wants or realize that people don't want it as badly as you thought they did.
- code_duck 16y agoIf you can't code, you should at least be good at project management/design.