I lost $209k of my own money trying to start a business
I have a very high level of scepticism towards non-technical founders without deep pockets:<p>1. There&#x27;s an agility to being able to change things yourself, at 2am if necessary. That&#x27;s very important to startups.<p>2. There&#x27;s a discipline to not accruing unreasonable technical debt of the type that will sink you two years in that you can&#x27;t expect from someone who doesn&#x27;t deeply care.<p>3. Managing devs generally requires understanding what&#x27;s going on. Unless you&#x27;re ready to hire a CTO with a track record, a non-technical person can&#x27;t do that.<p>There&#x27;s also a long tail-end of reasons. For example, prototyping and tinkering nights and weekends is &quot;free,&quot; and can contribute a surprising amount of value. It can&#x27;t be managed, though; you can&#x27;t just pay other people to play around, and expect that to be focused in ways which might add value.<p>*Every* time I&#x27;ve personally seen the playbook of a non-tech founders for a tech startup, it didn&#x27;t end well.