Muggles don't have a technically informed imagination.
If you've had a boss or consulting client asking for convoluted features (or more likely solving the wrong problem), you know what I'm talking about.
Can a supportive cofounder be better? If they listen to what you have to say. But there's another category of failure with a tech-biz duo: they won't know to ask for the really simple to implement but insanely lucrative features.
In my first tech job, I had a conversation with a person writing specs. He was explaining what he was going to put in for the next version.
-"Have you thought of Y?"
-"Maybe for the version after that, it would be really useful but I don't think we have time to do it before X"
-"Y is 10 times easier to implement than X"
-"Oh..."
Laziness and domain knowledge are a great combo. I'm sure several others here have had the same conversation.
Doing customer discovery recently a customer told me: "That would be the holy grail of retail". None of my likely competitors are showing any signs of tackling the same problem. Maybe my strategy is dead wrong. I'm betting my competitors are all techies with little in the way of domain knowledge.
If you've had a boss or consulting client asking for convoluted features (or more likely solving the wrong problem), you know what I'm talking about.
Can a supportive cofounder be better? If they listen to what you have to say. But there's another category of failure with a tech-biz duo: they won't know to ask for the really simple to implement but insanely lucrative features.
In my first tech job, I had a conversation with a person writing specs. He was explaining what he was going to put in for the next version.
-"Have you thought of Y?"
-"Maybe for the version after that, it would be really useful but I don't think we have time to do it before X"
-"Y is 10 times easier to implement than X"
-"Oh..."
Laziness and domain knowledge are a great combo. I'm sure several others here have had the same conversation.
Doing customer discovery recently a customer told me: "That would be the holy grail of retail". None of my likely competitors are showing any signs of tackling the same problem. Maybe my strategy is dead wrong. I'm betting my competitors are all techies with little in the way of domain knowledge.