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startups take 3-5 years to get going. there's no way someone legit is going to hang in there and put up with that. become your own technical cofounder.
by Kalanos 3y ago
startups take 3-5 years to get going. there's no way someone legit is going to hang in there and put up with that.
become your own technical cofounder.
- CaptainOfCoit 3y ago> startups take 3-5 years to get going I'd say that if you're doing a software startup and it takes 3-5 years to figure out market fit, probably the idea/execution isn't very good. Another story if you're doing hardware or require intense R&D, but for software? That's way too long time.
- Kalanos 3y agowhich startups have you founded and made profitable? it's really scrappy through pre-seed if you can get one. software is the easy part
- Turing_Machine 3y agoIf it's that easy, you shouldn't need a technical co-founder in the first place. Right?
- rrr_oh_man 3y agoBut most "idea founders" fail to take that even very low hurdle and don’t make to a Wordpress site with a mailing list. Or money.
- josephg 3y ago> become your own technical cofounder. Eh, maybe. Software is legitimately challenging and time consuming to learn. Especially for people to whom math doesn’t come naturally. Sure, it doesn’t take too long to learn how to throw together a crappy website. But building a business on top of beginner skills would be like trying to compose the score for a movie after 6 months of piano lessons. You can do it, but the output will be visibly crap. I agree a lot more with the advice in this blog post. If you’re struggling to hire a technical cofounder, find someone who knows their craft well and hire them.