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Ask HN: Here is your 50%, "non-technicals"
I am a software engineer and entrepreneur with around 7+ years of experience. In all my startups or corporate jobs I have worked in, I have always been in technical / software development positions. In the startups I have been involved in (I have 2), I can say that I generally find myself successful in the technical and business development stages, but in the "marketing" stage, which is very vital for a startup, I fail every time and it seems like a chore to me. One of the main things I do wrong is that I feel like potential customers or people in general are robots and I have to program them in a very deterministic way to buy my product. I know this approach is wrong, but every time I try, my attitude evolves here.
Thank God that in every startup I've been involved in, I've had very talented co-founders to handle that part. They feel the same way about my technical development skills. That's great, but it's the interdependence and not being able to turn it into a "one-man show" that gets me every time.
How can I go about this, can I get out of this mess? If the answer is really no, send me an email for 50% (egesabanci@outlook.com.tr), I have some new ideas.
By the way, ignore the title, I phrased it that way to draw attention.
- djbusby 2y agoA key indicator for early stage business is if the founder can convince others to join for zero money. Can you sell it to one devoted partner? That is: a co-founder ; typically with complementary skills eg: the hacker and the hustler. If you want a one-man-show you need to do both, reasonably well until you can hire someone to do the other. LevelsIO on Twitter is a good role model there.