How To Build A Tech Startup With No Technical Skills

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Based on the thousands of companies YC has funded over the years, the biggest common element between all successful startups is having technical talent on the founding team. But what do you do if you don’t know how to code? You may think you can get by using no-code tools, part-time consultants, or dev shops to bring your startup idea to life. But that thinking is wrong.

In this episode of Dalton & Michael, we’ll discuss exactly why that is and why recruiting a technical co-founder is the single biggest way to create value as someone trying to start the next big thing.

Apply to Y Combinator: https://yc.link/DandM-apply
Work at a Startup: https://yc.link/DandM-jobs

Chapters (Powered by https://bit.ly/chapterme-yc) –
00:00 – Coming Up
00:32 – Technical Founders
01:52 – The Intersection
05:06 – Software Engineers
09:18 – How to Find Them
10:31 – Ask The Best
11:28 – How Not to Pitch
13:26 – The Adventure
14:17 – Great Recruiters

Date: November 30, 2023
Startups y Combinator YC yt:cc=on

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40 thoughts on “How To Build A Tech Startup With No Technical Skills”

  1. Chapters (Powered by ChapterMe) –
    00:00 – Coming Up
    00:17 – Why Business Folks Need Great Technical Co-Founders
    00:32 – Technical Founders
    01:52 – The Intersection: Great Business Founders and Hiring Amazing Technical Co-Founders
    03:32 – Making The Point Explicit
    04:44 – Advice From Personal Experience At Twitch
    05:06 – Great Software Companies Are Built By Great Software Engineers
    06:54 – Equivalent In NBA
    09:18 – Where Do I Find Technical Co-Founders?
    10:31 – Thought Experiment: Ask The Best Person You Know
    11:28 – How Not to Pitch: Come Up with the Idea Together
    12:18 – Being An Amazing Recruiter
    13:26 – Offering An Adventure: Building A Company Together
    14:17 – Pattern: Successful Non-Technical Founders Are Great Recruiters
    14:59 – Outro

  3. I am 18 year's old with 0 tech knowledge but I have an great idea but I'm getting overwhelmed and don't have any idea how to start. I will be grateful if anyone would help me. I need a website or app to start my startup for reference my app would contain social interaction + job findings like Instagram and Udemy in one platform.

  7. For "Asking the best " part …. I disagree, most of them have a preconceived notion of what is deemed good or not.,What will work and what will not, without … really asking the question of "which customers might need this?"

  8. Incubators like YC make non-tech founders feel like an outcast. The real world is filled with Comp Science PhD level programmers who can build anything but don't have good understanding of business, marketing, sales, and customer needs. You need visionaries as much as the executors. Wozniak was a genius for building the first Apple computer but it was Steve Jobs that made Apple what it is today. He never wrote a single line of code. Here are some more examples:

    1. Jack Ma (Alibaba Group)
    2. Brian Chesky & Joe Gebbia(Airbnb)
    3. Ben Silbermann & Evan Sharp (Pinterest)
    4. Peter Thiel (PayPal)
    5. Alex Karp (Palantir)
    6. Ryan Smith (Qualtrics):
    7. Whitney Wolfe Herd (Bumble)
    8. Melanie Perkins (Canva)
    9. Julia Hartz (Eventbrite)
    10. Travis Kalanick (Uber)

    I can go on but you get the idea. YC is great and has done more for the Startup ecosystem than all the other entities combined. Keep the learning that makes sense to you but don't let their preaching be God's words. You can do achieve anything you set your mind to and that includes starting a successful business without knowing how to code.

  10. I am not a dev but I began building my demo and flew right past that and my MVP is nearly complete. The potential for my idea is HUGE and I am not about to give away ownership to someone because they are techie, most tech guys are asses and have huge egos to get past and even worse personalities. I guess I am that one that they are laughing about. I may fail but chances are I wont and will be so happy to find this video and share my success. No information was given here except go look for someone and hand away your idea. Sorry not this guy, genius ideas and massive potential is not easy to come by. If there was an honest guy willing to work as hard as me and has ideas to bring to the table. I am game but I am not begging for someone to be my sounding board. I got AI for that .

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