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Not a Programmer
What are the chances of getting into YComb if no one on the team is a programmer. We built a prototype with an outside firm...
- joss82 17y agoAre you hackers ?
- CAuffenberg 17y agounfortunately no, but will hire some the minute we can!
- joss82 17y agoBut great hackers don't come cheap, if you manage to hire them at all (they want equity, plenty of it). If you can't secure the best hackers, you will loose to competition (it's them !)
- CAuffenberg 17y agoyou're right on - but worth the equity to make sure the idea can come alive!
- anamax 17y ago> unfortunately no, but will hire some the minute we can! I suspect that one important question during the YC process will be how you know whether the ones that you hire are any good. Or, more important, great rather than good. Have you addressed the issues in the relevant PG essay? Another issus is finding them. As Joel Spolsky points out, they have jobs and aren't looking.
- mahmud 17y agoDunno about YC, but the market is gonna be a little too hard if you're doing a software product. Only thing that can offset that, that I can think of, is extensive domain expertise, market insight and deep industry connections. Try to get some programmers on board, just for your own good.
- CAuffenberg 17y agoWe will definitely bring on programmers once we can secure funding but am hoping it does not inhibit the Y Comb application process...
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