One reason nontechnical founders have a higher failure rate is simply that they have to pay one more programmer's salary.
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Many Silicon Valley companies outsource product development to Bangalore! To solve this.
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Many non-tech entrepreneurs work with failed tech entrepreneurs in India to solve this problem.
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@paulg@vkhosla One must wonder, if more technical#startups had a non-technical co-founder, how many would become SOLVENT?#sustainabilityThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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The difference between Silicon Valley salaries and everyone else's. Moral of the story: hire outside of the Valley.
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There are lots of successful startups that came within a product manager's salary of running out of money. Facebook did.
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And for the record: AirBnB didn't.
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Do you mean if the founder doesn't code, the startup is more likely to fail? Do all technical founders really code?
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A technical founder means they can do the technicals.
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Yes I was making the point that technical founders often don't code even if they can
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O i c. Ya it seems they grow into a different role along the way. But from my understanding they definitely create much of the code/archtctr
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This is why we build out free MVP with
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There are a lot of startups who were a sales deal short of staying in business too.
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Not anymore. Times are changing
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Any advice for non-technical people but with great ideas?
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My direct competitor was able to get a dev to work for free. The dev wanted my cofounder to fail. It was personal.
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Is here clustering around this value?
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agree, its not just salary but knowledge/skills makes lot of difference in pivoting and translating customer needs
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A lack of funds does focus the mind.
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Sadly the lack of understanding what a developer actually does is often a major factor too. Black box profession
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