Product Managers in Startups: What’s their Role?

Re:Product Managers in Startups: What’s their Role? by anamax on Thursday October 15, 2009 @06:19PM (#884387)

> The prevailing attitude on HN is that all founders and early employees at a startup must be coders.

That's not quite right, but code is the product.

> As a technical person with a business background (and MBA in progress) I find this attitude short-sighted, since technical employees with business background can bring a LOT of value to a startup vs hiring yet another programmer.

I'll bite - what value do you bring that exceeds the value of a coder? I'll assume that you're not coding, so be specific about what that business background provides.

Note - coders can talk with customers, get requirements, etc. Some of us own suits and have some VC "greenstamps" to cash in.

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Re:Product Managers in Startups: What’s their Role? by anamax on Thursday October 15, 2009 @09:38PM (#884607)

I forgot to ask. When is that value "full-time" and what should happen before then?

While this whole line of disucssion has been about "code", I'm interested in how things might be different when for "not software" products.

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