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0 pointsgwd1y ago0 comments

If I had to re-summarize your point, I'd put it this way:

1. Success is very little on the idea, almost entirely on the execution

2. Execution has both a technical side and a business side, and can fail from a poor execution either way.

How this applies to your target audience:

You have an idea for a business? Nice -- that's almost worthless (1). You can't influence execution on the technical side, so you need to bring execution from the business side (2).

I like the numbers -- "a waitlist of 1000 people or LOI from 20 businesses" gives a better idea what kind of execution a non-technical co-founder should be capable of.

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ethbr11y ago

These discussions also get wrapped up in what "non-technical" means.

It can mean management skillset.

It can mean people-networking and sales skillset.

For an early-stage startup, the former doesn't bring much value (management value literally scales with employee count) while the latter absolutely does.

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