One of the advices I've heard at the 'Istanbul Startup 2014' event was the following: *Design of the app comes first! (don’t lose too much time on engineer

One of the advices I've heard at the 'Istanbul Startup 2014' event was the following: *Design of the app comes first! (don’t lose too much time on engineering on early stage).* Some people took the advice to the extreme[1]. On the bright side though, the Winner of the Challenge was a startup called 'Connected2Me' (IM mobile app) which was run by 2 guys: A Python developer (seemed to be the hardcore kind) and a DevOps guy who recently jumped up probably to handle the load and sys-admin. The startup had more than 2M users in Turkey alone. They both seemed (dress, talk, etc.) more like pure geeks more than business people. [1] About a month ago I've seen a bio-informatics startup on HN (can't recall if it was about fighting a disease e.g. HIV or about genetic modification). The team was made by 7 members, 6 business oriented people (CEO, CTO, this and that manager) and ONE biologist with IT background. Seemed extremely ridiculous!