Comments on: How to “Help” An Entrepreneur? http://seedround.com/how-to-help-an-entrepreneur The Adventures of Startup Life and the Web. Mon, 05 Jul 2010 12:45:28 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc By: bob corrigan http://seedround.com/how-to-help-an-entrepreneur/comment-page-1#comment-434 bob corrigan Mon, 17 Jul 2006 16:27:03 +0000 http://seedround.com/how-to-help-an-entrepreneur#comment-434 This is an important issue IMO because at the heart of most software startups is a software innovation - not a business innovation. The business follows the software, not the other way around. As a result, the software entrepreneur sees all follow-on executives as agents who will execute on the founder's vision of how the software innovation will deliver value. Getting "help" becomes more about finding people who can execute on that vision, and less about finding people who can build a business. A software entrepreneur who is a business person first and a technologist second will not have this problem to the same extent that so-called "technical entrepreneurs" will. The lead entrepreneur has to put the business (and the business plan) first, and design/deliver software that will meet that vision - not the other way around. Or perhaps this is all just axiomatic.. This is an important issue IMO because at the heart of most software startups is a software innovation – not a business innovation. The business follows the software, not the other way around.

As a result, the software entrepreneur sees all follow-on executives as agents who will execute on the founder’s vision of how the software innovation will deliver value. Getting “help” becomes more about finding people who can execute on that vision, and less about finding people who can build a business.

A software entrepreneur who is a business person first and a technologist second will not have this problem to the same extent that so-called “technical entrepreneurs” will. The lead entrepreneur has to put the business (and the business plan) first, and design/deliver software that will meet that vision – not the other way around.

Or perhaps this is all just axiomatic..

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