I agree with Ben, there is waaaay more demand fron non engineers to partner with a developer than the opposite.
In my opinion, it's easier to spin a startup with poor marketing, sales, etc, but it's impossible without a real product.
So in the end, developer tend to avoid co-founder for their own ideas unless they really want to focus on coding and want to build this specific idea, otherwise it would make more sense to partner with a business person that have a validated solution or expertise in the specific business domain.
Thanks Hugo. I have known it my entire career (25 years in tech) but somehow thought I could beat the odds I guess. Mentioning supply/demand reality is helpful. Certainly, there are way more people with "ideas" (validated or not) then there are Engineers to build them.
This doesn't change my target goal - build something people want.
But it does change my approach to building "the next thing", should I ever do that.
I agree with Ben, there is waaaay more demand fron non engineers to partner with a developer than the opposite.
In my opinion, it's easier to spin a startup with poor marketing, sales, etc, but it's impossible without a real product.
So in the end, developer tend to avoid co-founder for their own ideas unless they really want to focus on coding and want to build this specific idea, otherwise it would make more sense to partner with a business person that have a validated solution or expertise in the specific business domain.
Thanks Hugo. I have known it my entire career (25 years in tech) but somehow thought I could beat the odds I guess. Mentioning supply/demand reality is helpful. Certainly, there are way more people with "ideas" (validated or not) then there are Engineers to build them.
This doesn't change my target goal - build something people want.
But it does change my approach to building "the next thing", should I ever do that.