At first I thought it'd be great to pick up engineering and say yes to some of these founders. After becoming a designer/engineer I've realized that most of th

At first I thought it'd be great to pick up engineering and say yes to some of these founders. After becoming a designer/engineer I've realized that most of these ideas take shape during the engineering process. And the process will in turn change and twist the idea itself based on customer interviews and iterative prototypes. The engineering process leads to better "ideas" that replace the initial ideas. But most non-engineer, first-time founders don't realize that's the case. The engineering process also pokes so many holes in the first idea, because they require the idea to actually be fleshed out... Maybe I'm just bitter about working with doe-eyed, non-technical first time "idea person" kind of founders.