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Ask HN: Am I Technical enough to be the Technical Co-founder?
2 points by Blackstone4 on July 18, 2017 | hide | past | favorite | 6 comments
I am looking for on advice on how technical does a technical co-founder have to be.

Is my background enough?

My experience:

- MEng Engineering Maths (learnt MATLAB, Java, C, Prolog and Haskell as well as Linux)

- Software engineer >2years (Java, SQL, Linux)

- Quantitative analyst ~2.5 years (VBA and Excel)

- Investment professional ~4 years (Excel)

In my spare time I've been learning React.js, node/javascript and GraphQL. I've been building an MVP with Graph.cool as the backend. I'm also okay in python.

So am I Technical enough to be a Technical Co-founder? I have a potential non-technical co-founder lined up to start the business with.



Kinda depends on what you're building...for a todo list app, definitely, for an autonomous robot that performs brain surgery, maybe not.


Fair point - it would be a data intensive investor portal which also serves up PDFs. My goal further down the line is to have advanced analytics but the initial services would be fairly rudimentary and I feel like I could build it..... it just might take longer


What this guy said + you seem to have a generalist skill set, which is good. You can't know everything, but if you know where to look and how to teach yourself, thats already half the battle.


Are you technical enough to build the MVP then I don't see the problem?


Yeah I think I could build an okay MVP. It wont be shiny but it'll work


Any constructive advice would be more than welcome




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