[carsongross]

> One of the worst idea is to have non-technical people try to create a tech business without a strong technical co-founder.

The best formula I have seen is one business guy and two strong programmers, where one of the two has some talent in ops.

[KennyCason]

I concur. Our initial team was just that. We had an myself (Engineer), A sales/marketing guy, A new Engineer, someone in Ops part-time. The combination made the division of labor so much easier, which directly results in a faster go-to-market.

[lacampbell]

This doesn't surprise me at all. I'm a BA/Dev. and if it's a team of two, I am going to be much more productive working with a sysadmin/ops guy than I am with another dev.