[bsvalley]

Great pieces of advice but it’s like asking a sales person to learn how to code. My best advice and where I believe engineers should spend 100% of there energy up front, is to go out there and find a cofounder who’s primary skill is to sell stuff. Product or marketing folks.

Both strategies (yours and mine) are very tough and time consuming, so I’d definitely pick mine. Why? Because it would be so much more optimized in the long run. That’s how most of the tech companies started and there’s a good reason for that.

[chasd00]

Yes! Find a salesperson for the reasons above. I'll add this, in all startups I've been in the actual code or engineering made up 20% of the company at most. Sales, marketing, operations, finance, you better be just as good in those areas as you are in your favorite pet language.