angel-investors, ceoIn a lot of places Peter Thiel emphasizes the value of engineers over business people for a startup company. He is a Philosophy and Law graduate.
Did he code? Did he do any of the engineering of Paypal?
Having been a member of two startups that had great developers and no good marketing or business planning I see this as a subjective thing.
You most likely need to have both - great technical staff and great marketing or lots of luck.
We developed fantastic products. But it went nowhere.
So, what you need is a well-rounded team.
It is probably easier finding help in the marketing and business side, or from accelerators or VC or incubators, so I do tend to have a bias, but outstanding developers alone will not get you anywhere other than a neat, shiny product.
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