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Does YC ever accept business / growth people or just "tech"? I ask that in seriousness, as my take - in my very limited time as a startup founder & employee - h
by Disruptive_Dave 12y ago
Does YC ever accept business / growth people or just "tech"? I ask that in seriousness, as my take - in my very limited time as a startup founder & employee - has consistently been that many startups fail due in part to an obvious lack of business sense and skills. I'm regularly surprised by the sheer amount of startups out there, many of which are funded, with coders and designers who have no damn clue how to sell.
"We were a solid team, a designer/developer combo." Is that a solid "build a business" team or just a solid "engineer the product" team?
- phkahler 12y agoYC is supposed to help with things like that. They teach techies the business side of things and I would imagine they'd say "you need to hire someone to do sales" if that's what they needed. In this case they said from the start something like "we're concerned about your product idea" which was their primary problem. I suppose having someone with sales smarts may have helped them figure it out, since their idea was to help you-tubers sell stuff apparently.
- Disruptive_Dave 12y agoI suppose teaching techies business is easier than teaching business folks tech (or maybe quicker?). Still, I continue to be perplexed at the absence of "business" in startups. I'm not convinced that injecting "business" into a startup is an option for a later date.
- bsdpython 12y agoIf you have to hire someone to sell to your first customers then you might have a problem