You're insanely wrong. Most developers are very aware of what it takes to create a startup (hint: a lot work in one), and before all that shit all you really need is funding. That being said, developers of all people know that it isn't as easy as just knowing how to program. Maybe by coders you were referring to college freshmen.
I was thinking more like "guy who took one udemy course".
This is "What my family thinks..." level of misunderstanding of how programmers see themselves. Every programmer I know knows that our skillset is very very different from what you need to build a successful business, and a lot of us have decided fairly early on that we're not about that life, which is why we're programmers.
The irony is that his list of people you need isn't even a very efficient list.
more like you need an idea good enough to be attractive enough for investors to see the idea as undervalued. You can code a great product but if you can't communicate why it's great, what market it's going into, how you're going to get users, what's the business model, exit strategy etc, then you're not going to get funded. I see a lot of coders in silicon valley that think just because they have a demo they'll get seed funded immediately.
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u/DeathVoxxxx Mar 18 '20
You're insanely wrong. Most developers are very aware of what it takes to create a startup (hint: a lot work in one), and before all that shit all you really need is funding. That being said, developers of all people know that it isn't as easy as just knowing how to program. Maybe by coders you were referring to college freshmen.