NYCPHP Meetup

[Chris Snyder]

On Sat, May 19, 2012 at 12:18 PM, Kristina Anderson
<ka at kacomputerconsulting.com> wrote:
> want to team up with marketing genuis and let the code do most
> of the work so I don't have to!!!  :)

Investors are only interested in open source because programming
talent claims it as a condition of employment, not because they see
any intrinsic advantage to it. So you might as well leave it out of
your equation (though not out of your toolkit) and concentrate on
finding a marketing genius, or maybe better a visionary with some head
for business, and becoming the architect of their own private
skunkworks.

But that's aside. What I really wanted to say about this issue is that
I think convincing investors to give you money is a waste of valuable
programming time. Build the product first, launch the service, prove
that there is value (and profit?) in it... and then if you still need
investors they will come to you.

But of course you have to eat and have a place to live, so if you
don't have money to cover those expenses while you build stuff, maybe
you'll have to suck it up and go work for the man for a while until
you do.