It is true that you can make quick progress as a beginner but there are other areas where is can be painfully slow. Launching a new product while dealing with t

It is true that you can make quick progress as a beginner but there are other areas where is can be painfully slow. Launching a new product while dealing with the growing pains of a new business can cause a lot of wasted time. Having someone with more experience around can be invaluable to a new start up, especially if you are doing something other than software where the start up costs are prohibitively high (tooling, patents etc)