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Comment by anthonycerra | Hacker News Reader

This article is too long for what it delivers. Most of it is a derivative of what all the talking heads say: "Ideas are meaningless. Execution is everything".

The value of this article can be boiled down to the following sentence. If you're not a technical co-founder be prepared to show off your sales and marketing chops before you start looking for one.

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The article brings a valid point. If you're a wanna-be entrepreneur and all you have an idea, that's not nearly enough.

The article is making a valid point, but there is an equally valid counter-point that I think is being obscured. Many technical co-founders expect that coding is the entirety of what they will do, hence the shopping list of a non-technical co-founder who will do 'everything else'/'all the boring bits'.

If the only thing you - as a technical person - are bringing to the founders table is programming skills, then you're at the wrong table. Get yo bitch ass over to the 'low digit employee number queue'.

You might be one of the first employees, but you're not co-founder material. Technical people who only bring coding skills are just as worthless as non-technical people who only bring an idea.

I thought it added value with the listed evidence that a founder has non-technical chops. I have similar conversations with people, it always comes down to asking them how they justify their expertise above and beyond having the idea.

I agree with you. I think he should have elaborated on those points.

It ends with his own job ad for co-founders.

>And I got you to read this far, didn't I?

he got me to skim to the end and tl; dr the whole thing

mutual optimization!

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