We’re needing a new software product for my current business. We’re old school: health care. Our current commercial software is dated. We found something new, but it doesn’t help us at all with compliance which, after the operations, is our biggest challenge. I’m not a technical person, but we’re going to have to conquer this problem with technology or be conquered by it.
One of the ongoing questions in the startup world is around the importance of having a technical co-founder. The idea is that by having a strong technical person on the founding team, the startup will be able to move faster, make more intelligent architectural decisions, and build a better product. Several days ago PandoDaily published an article about Quotidian Ventures and their focus on “founders who have domain expertise in large, opaque old school industries.”
I agree that having a technical co-founder is great, but is no longer a requirement. Here are a few reasons why it isn’t as important as it used to be:
- Cloud computing, and specifically Amazon Web Services, are much better understood and have more ready-to-use scripts and tools that remove many of the previous challenges
- Languages and frameworks, like Ruby on Rails, have significantly reduced the learning curve to not only get up-and-running…
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