as a technical cofounder, i would highly recommend getting a business cofounder to handle fundraising, sales, and partnerships.
business/people move slow... you can't muscle your way through it. you need like 5 high-quality opportunities for 1 to close. so if you build something great, it will take just as long if not longer to develop a business around it.
you need to advance each side in parallel.
once you have an MVP, immediately start building for a customer
If his "idea" is so valuable, he's not going to want you to take all the equity, he'd put his money forward.
If I'm putting more money forward than he (in terms of doing work for free), I'm also the money guy. If I'm both the money guy and the tech guy, who is he?
I think the point was that if you are the "business cofounder" and are unable to raise funds, you are not serving a purpose. The flip of this is a technical cofounder that can't actually write functional code.
> as a technical cofounder, I would highly recommend getting a business cofounder to handle fundraising, sales, and partnerships.
But your business cofounder would need to show the ability to be a pretty good sales leader and a sales person with a very impressive rolodex. Effectively you're looking at/for a CRO (chief rev officier). These kinds of people are basically working at enterprise software firms because sales people don't care about the product and can effectively sell anything.
business/people move slow... you can't muscle your way through it. you need like 5 high-quality opportunities for 1 to close. so if you build something great, it will take just as long if not longer to develop a business around it.
you need to advance each side in parallel.
once you have an MVP, immediately start building for a customer