Should tech entrepreneurs write codes? - The Nation

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Jay Jootar
@drjaysayji November 27, 2012 1:00 am

In addition, there are many other tasks demanded from an entrepreneur that seem more important: managing resources, hiring good people, motivating the team, ensuring a good product market fit, and so on.

Yet when you look at successful tech start-ups, most if not all of them have founders who coded, at least when they founded their companies. Bill Gates, Steve Wozniak, Larry Page, and Mark Zuckerberg are just a few notable examples. Steve Jobs is a rare exception, yet he is still very technical and can converse with engineers with ease.

In fact, the ability to write codes helps you as a tech entrepreneur in many different ways. Being able to code enables you to create a prototype of yourself. Even if you have cash to pay for programmers, which often times you don't, it is usually faster for you to create a prototype yourself if you can. You do not have to explain your ideas to others. A good prototype can give you the funding you need to create an actual product.

In addition, if you can code, you will have a better idea about what is and is not possible in terms of the product you are trying to build. You will be able to give a better assessment of the cost and time of doing something than if you don't know how to code at all.

The ability to code will make you speak the same language as your engineers, who will represent the majority of your team. Even if you cannot code as well as they can, you will command more respect if you can talk intelligently about their work. It is widely accepted that technical employees are more likely to follow founders with technical expertise.

During the life of a start-up, many decisions look "technical", but are in fact "business". These are technical decisions that have big impacts on business, and can make or break the company. If you do not have good technical understanding, you will not recognise these as such. You will most likely delegate these critical decisions to people who will look at it solely from a technical point of view - a recipe for disaster.

However, the importance of technical expertise varies according to the types of products you are building as well. Some products might compete primarily on technical features. Other products compete on domain knowledge, viral marketing, or other non-technical matters. In latter cases, the ability to code might not be as important as the former.

To sum up, even though it is not critical in all cases, the ability to code will make you stronger as an entrepreneur. But if you really cannot or will not, there is another option. "If you cannot become a Gates, then do what Jobs did - find yourself a Wozniak."

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I?m going to take a break from travel tips for a second to do a little but very important housekeeping:

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We?ve come to expect new, usually innovative products from Bill Gates and company. However, Surface, their Windows 8 tablet, breaks from Microsoft?s decades-old tradition of relying on outside partners to manufacture the actual devices that run its software. Say what?!?! You mean?like Apple? Exactly?like Apple!

Many of our clients come to us and say it?s too late for them to start a business blog. They?ve missed the bandwagon. What they?ve been doing for years will have to be good enough. To which we respond, if Bill Gates can change horses way downstream, what?s stopping you?

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5. Your revenue will increase, perhaps dramatically!

We?ve intentionally kept today?s post simple and to the point. Yes, there are ultimately important considerations when one is developing a blog:?Search Engine Optimization, content, social media choices and many more.

Look around though. Do a little research yourself. Check out your competition?s business blogging presence. As you can plainly see, there?s nothing magical about making a few keystrokes to promote?YOUR business in a way that is helpful to YOUR clients and prospects. That?s really the essence of inbound marketing.

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It?s never too late to be what you might have been.

At DBC Digital, we believe in possibilities. Yours! We help educate and inform our clients through a variety of online forums, including this blog. We have to continually hone our knowledge base to serve you effectively. Sometimes that involves change.?It looks like even Bill Gates had to go back to school himself. You can do it too!

Did you have any obstacles that initially kept you from writing a blog for your business? How did you overcome them? Please let us know in the Comments section below!

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