How We Bootstrapped a $20K Website into a $4M/year Business  
I love this story. This is also why I bristle when many in the Valley - PG included - keep disparaging non-technical people when they want to start a tech company.<p>I never understood this.<p>For a group of people (programmers) that presumably have been ostracized, shunned, and picked on in their formative years, why do so many in the valley do this to 'MBAs'.<p>It's ignorant at best.<p>The fact is, as has been shown time and time again, the #1 factor for success in a startup is not technical knowledge (or even business knowledge). It's just an unshakeable will to figure it out and get it done.<p>If you are a technical startup with non-technical founders, that's just 1 set of challenges you have to deal with. However, if you are a technical founder and are bad with finance and other business stuff (and are trying to raise money or do a partnership deal with another company) you will have a commensurate amount of problems.<p>I wish we all, on HN (at the very least), would stop painting with a broad brush and bashing large swathes of people.<p>Everybody here wants the same thing. To build a lasting business. Who cares what background they have.<p>Congrats to you guys for doing this - despite, what I am sure, were incessant snarky comments you got from geeks.<p><i>P.S. I apologize for the rant, but I am both a geek & an MBA - both of which I would never apologize for, and both of which have completely changed my life.</i>