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To me it seems like recruiting of a developer worth anything, from scratch and without an existing team to help you to recruit or lure, must be much more diffic
by dagss 13y ago
To me it seems like recruiting of a developer worth anything, from scratch and without an existing team to help you to recruit or lure, must be much more difficult than getting an amazing idea or selling said amazing idea. Is that just because I never tried selling anything?
Does anybody have examples of successful startups that proceeded in the way Sergio describes and became successful -- starting out with a business person/team, selling the goods first, then manage to find developer(s) to build it? (It's not rhetorical, I'd love to hear such examples -- the usual stories seem to be revolving around a gang of programmers, or at least a programmer co-founder.)
- sergioschuler 13y agoLook at http://thefoundation.com/ http://thefoundation.com/ , they have some cases about this kind of approach.
- daigoba66 13y agoFor the company I currently work for, and at a previous company I worked for, v1 was built by an outsourced development firm long before the first fulltime engineer was hired. Yes it sucked and has since been completly rewitten. But it was a working product that started bringing in revenue and helped raise more money.
- apineda 13y agoStephanie from https://www.refficient.com/ https://www.refficient.com/ did just that.