Re:The single most important thing you must do to improve yo...
by raganwald on Tuesday April 29, 2008 @08:21AM
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First, +1. I think there is a lot of room for debate around this subject, and frankly this was exactly the debate I hoped to provoke (which is why I included a video of Jobs introducing macintosh, a product he really did not create in the engineering sense).
Should we be like Woz? like Jobs? Should we strive for a partnership like Woz + Jobs? Hire a "Sales Animal" and a PR firm as Paul has described doing with his company?
And what is the role of an incubator/angel/YCombinator? Can it help programmers focus on programming? Or is there something really fundamental in "communicating well" that is necessary to successfully creating programs?
I think there's a lot of room for discussion around this, and I hope it's as productive for you to weigh the various options and outcomes as it has been for me in my life.
Should we be like Woz? like Jobs? Should we strive for a partnership like Woz + Jobs? Hire a "Sales Animal" and a PR firm as Paul has described doing with his company?
And what is the role of an incubator/angel/YCombinator? Can it help programmers focus on programming? Or is there something really fundamental in "communicating well" that is necessary to successfully creating programs?
I think there's a lot of room for discussion around this, and I hope it's as productive for you to weigh the various options and outcomes as it has been for me in my life.