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I think this misses the true hardship of non-technical founders. I'm a programmer working with a non-technical cofounder and it isn't me vs her, I don't think
by sontek 14y ago
I think this misses the true hardship of non-technical founders. I'm a programmer working with a non-technical cofounder and it isn't me vs her, I don't think I'm putting in more than her because she does the pitches, meetings, e-mails, finances, etc.
If you are a non-technical founder and you can prevent your technical founder from doing anything non-technical... you are pulling your weight!
That being said, the problems I have with a non-techie is that she doesn't understand the tech things:
1. E-mail is not a todo list, we have a bug tracking system.
2. Stop talking about "Your programmer friend said...", I understand you don't know technology and want to verify what I say but how is not understanding it from 2 people instead of 1 going to help?
3. Open Source is important, so yes we will be committing to our github once in awhile on company time, that is because we are using that project for the company.
4. Alpha/Beta is different than MVP. Just because something is ready to show you doesn't mean its ready to be shown to the world.
- njharman 14y ago3,4 seem business and not technical. If you can't get those, you can't get software development business and shouldn't be involved with one in a leadership role. #3 you disagree with and decide against, but you have to understand why.