Entrepreneurship: Startup founder skills/background
Hello TechWorld,
I’m like the thousands of other wantrepreneurs. With that out of the way, I’ve been thinking hard about building a true skill set to monetize later down the road, whether it be in the form of:
I) Tech Startup
II) Consulting
If all else fails, I’ll be a decently paid employee.
I currently do finance/accounting/Hr work (4 YOE) which doesn’t really lead to any “impactful” skills to necessarily build a tech startup. In a sense you can argue, sure, anyone can start a subscription box company, laundromat, etc., but what about a tech startup in particular?
I’m wondering, in your opinion, what some of you successful startup founders would recommend I build my skills in:
I) Coding? Should I try and become a SWE for a couple years to build tangible skills?
II) Switch to Sales/Marketing/Operations, hack at it and find a startup technical founder?
III) Try and jump to PM? Are there actual skills here that would lend itself to be valuable? I figure specially in a “tech” startup, you can’t really have a PM without a product, and you need an eng (if PM can’t code) to build a product? So, ultimately can’t that eng act as an eng/PM in the early phases?
I’m mostly extroverted and actual enjoy doing public speaking... but I do understand the value of great engineering skills.
What would you do?
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comments
You will always be able to find an engineer or designer who will love their job to build a product.
But no one can sell your product as good as a sales co-founder.