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.

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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

From: Y Combinator

Date: November 30, 2023

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

The real question is how to build a tech startup with no technical skills, no money and no time … nah, how about this one?

Honestly, kind of relieved we don’t see these two as much anymore. Got exhausting watching two folks who haven’t actually built anything in decades sit there cracking smug jokes about us 'silly entrepreneurs' and our 'dumb questions.' Maybe take a break from the sarcasm and launch something real again?

I wonder how this video changes with the advent of so many powerful coding agents like cursor, augment, or firebase studio.

With where AI is today and the trajectory. Are the opinions the same ?

I’m 18 girl stil in uni but I want to work together to start a company so bad a lot of my guy friends are super super neeked out and good at coding. I wonder if sometime in a year we could all work together to make smth as I’m a business and comp sci stufentb