Valid points made. But it does not address one key issue – how difficult it is for business guys to convince smart hackers to work together.
Does a Business Guy have a Place in Software Startups? – Tony Wright dot com
It turns out that it’s not so simple as that. Startups are diverse– each startup has different needs. How do you think SalesForce.com would’ve done if it’d been started by a bunch of hackers? How do you think Zappos.com would have fared if it wasn’t started by a zealot for customer service and support? There are plenty of examples of great software startups with a critical founder who wasn’t really a technologist (arguably, Apple is a great example of this).
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