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How to become your own technical co-founder

Zubin Pratap · freeCodeCamp Free Intermediate

A counterpoint worth hearing: sometimes learning enough to build a rough prototype yourself is faster and more reliable than searching for the perfect technical co-founder. It will not make you a CTO, but it can extend your runway and earn you credibility with future technical hires. Useful for deciding how much you personally should learn.

  • Learning to build a prototype can beat a long co-founder search
  • A prototype you built yourself buys credibility
  • This complements, it does not replace, real technical ownership
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It answers 2 questions

  1. I'm non-technical, do I actually need a technical co-founder?
  2. How do I actually find a technical co-founder?

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