| Founders new to coding write horrible code. And that is ok! At the beginning the biggest risk is not writting terrible code you will regreat having written, let alone give maintance. The biggest risk is making something nobody wants. From my experience, the biggest issue comes after you get enough traction/money/funding to hire a team. This is where things can get really bad, when the founder thinks he actually knows how to solve CS problems, and says things like: "This Machine Learning thing is not that hard: I wrote the landing page for the startup in 3 hours without any programming knowledge". Hubris is one dangerous trait that will get anyone in trouble. Founders, due to their natural Reality Distortion Field[1], can be a victim of it[2]. Kent Beck, creator the agile methodology XP, discussed some of this in his The Flight of a Startup[3] [1] http://www.startuplessonslearned.com/2010/09/visionarys-lame... [2] http://blog.paulbiggar.com/archive/why-we-shut-newstilt-down... [3] http://www.threeriversinstitute.org/blog/?p=251 |