Customer Employee Seed Money Technical Cofounder 
Steve Blank
JUNE 11, 2009
Passionate – is the company/product/customers the most important thing in your life? And I remind them that they should be bringing some type of domain expertise (technical or business) to the table. Yet for every founder there are 10-20 other employees who take the near-equivalent risks in joining an early-stage company.
techcrunch.com
OCTOBER 23, 2010
Post launch, if you gain traction, is where the business person will help take the load off of the technical folks. The business person can take all the meetings while the technical folks work on making the product better. Ron Oh and another factor to bring reality to the table - Sometimes you find out your cofounders suck.
www.paulgraham.com
AUGUST 1, 2008
We could hire employees, but we want to be forced to figure out how to scale investing. Series A rounds, where you raise a million dollars or more, will be custom deals for the forseeable future. And in particular, younger and more technical founders will be able to start startups than could before.
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