What about complementary skill sets? The 2 Steve's of Apple fame or example?
I think while it's just fine to have 2 technical cofounders it's also fine to have 2 founders where one is primarily business/design oriented while the other is more engineering/backend oriented [Frontend + Backend].
It's mostly about being able to maintain perspective on different parts of the startup even if both founders are technical and are capable programmers.
I think you'd always want one of the founders to be more marketing/biz oriented while the other stays in the scalability/performance arena. Why? Because going too deep into either domain forces you to lose perspective in the other. It's the same old not being able to see the forest through the trees problem.
Two heads are better than one precisely because they can complement each other - not because they can imitate one another.
If you have a single technical person, it seems that'd work best for some sort of product dev that doesn't involve maintaining a live service, wouldn't it? In the two-steves case, if Woz was on vacation for a week, or sick or something, all it meant was that no hardware design got done that week, but servers didn't start to fall over or anything.
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What about complementary skill sets? The 2 Steve's of Apple fame or example?
I think while it's just fine to have 2 technical cofounders it's also fine to have 2 founders where one is primarily business/design oriented while the other is more engineering/backend oriented [Frontend + Backend].
It's mostly about being able to maintain perspective on different parts of the startup even if both founders are technical and are capable programmers.
I think you'd always want one of the founders to be more marketing/biz oriented while the other stays in the scalability/performance arena. Why? Because going too deep into either domain forces you to lose perspective in the other. It's the same old not being able to see the forest through the trees problem.
Two heads are better than one precisely because they can complement each other - not because they can imitate one another.
If you have a single technical person, it seems that'd work best for some sort of product dev that doesn't involve maintaining a live service, wouldn't it? In the two-steves case, if Woz was on vacation for a week, or sick or something, all it meant was that no hardware design got done that week, but servers didn't start to fall over or anything.