The Biggest Challenge Faced by Technical Founders
goodcoffeegoodcode.blogspot.com
goodcoffeegoodcode.blogspot.com
The way I currently summarize this is: What’s the simplest possible thing you can do today to learn what you need for tomorrow?
I was talking to a technical founder the other day, and we were laughing about how the best thing right now would be to have a boss that is not yourself. Someone who would make all the decisions about what you should do, and then get out of the way so that you could just focus on the code.
But, that would be too easy...
"..then get out of the way so that you could just focus on the code" ...completely hate this.
At first read, the idea of a boss that is not yourself struck me as great because it helps give you a very different perspective on things. But having that boss simply "make all the decisions about what you should do" takes away all the duties of a founder. Figuring out what to do is the real hard work of a startup. Unless your technology is curing cancer, then you still need to understand everything you can about the problem you're solving and who you're solving it for. You can't just focus on the solution.