STARTUPS: Almost every article or conference session offering advice to startups has a tip about ensuring every new business has a technical co-founder or key member included in the team. But the growing rise of simple, open-source services means that some startups can possibly go a long way without the techies on-board. Read more on The Next Web.
There is an unspoken rule: to launch a startup, you need to build a product, and to do that you need someone that can write code.
Whether that means chasing down a technical co-founder, learning to code, or even building that "Lean MVP" – the conventional wisdom is that without tech abilities you’re nothing more than a dude (or dudette) with a Powerpoint.
A growing number of startups, however, are quietly disproving this assumption.
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