The difficulty with the business person is identifying actual skill. I've seen way to many startups where the business side was basically floundering, and the e

The difficulty with the business person is identifying actual skill. I've seen way to many startups where the business side was basically floundering, and the end result was technical firings and business hires, but no acknowledgement or punishment for the existing product and business staff. The places I've seen with actual success involved at least one founder capable of both, and that therefore had the taste to to realize when people coming up with ideas and taking meetings were just not meeting the high bar required. Because having ideas that don't work is easy, and so is having meetings that don't get you close to making sales. It looks like work is being done, but, if anything, it's making sure the company is spending time building the wrong things. I'd much rather work with business aware developers, who are interested in knowing more about the business, than with total business specialists. Finding business-only people that have interest in learning how things would get done, and therefore have any idea of how difficult their ideas are to implement, is in my experience way too hard, as the barrier of peering into code is way too high.