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's an agility to being able to change things yourself, at 2am if necessary. That's very important to startups.<p>2. There's a discipline to not accruing unreasonable technical debt of the type that will sink you two years in that you can't expect from someone who doesn't deeply care.<p>3. Managing devs generally requires understanding what's going on. Unless you're ready to hire a CTO with a track record, a non-technical person can't do that.<p>There's also a long tail-end of reasons. For example, prototyping and tinkering nights and weekends is "free," and can contribute a surprising amount of value. It can't be managed, though; you can't just pay other people to play around, and expect that to be focused in ways which might add value.<p>*Every* time I've personally seen the playbook of a non-tech founders for a tech startup, it didn't end well.