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A comment on Ask HN: Should a tech founder look for a non-tech co-founder?.

Re:Ask HN: Should a tech founder look for a non-tech co-foun... by menloparkbum on Wednesday June 11, 2008 @07:38PM (#215461)
From personal experience, I'm going to say no, don't get a non-tech cofounder (exception made for clones of Steve Jobs.)

There is a lot of nontechnical stuff to do in a startup but it doesn't make sense to start most of it until you actually have something working.

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Re:Ask HN: Should a tech founder look for a non-tech co-foun... by yankees1 on Wednesday June 11, 2008 @10:27PM (#215579)
Non-technical stuff like having a clue on how to actually make some money, maybe some domain expertise so you can actually solve a problem instead of just doing something cool? Yeah those can wait.

Hackers who dismiss the importance of being able to pull together and organize this type of work are just as bad as idea guys who think they can just get anybody to do this "really simple thing"..

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Re:Ask HN: Should a tech founder look for a non-tech co-foun... by menloparkbum on Wednesday June 11, 2008 @11:48PM (#215623)
I had the same experience as edw519. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=215204
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