@nicole_ceo: Fellow non-technical startup founders building tech products… this is a hot take but I stand by it. A lot of our early mistakes could have been avoided if we had the tech available today and reprioritized getting something into the hands of customers. This isn’t true if your entire product requires very technical integrations or are handling PII or other sensitive info, but for majority of the products out there, you can get your beta or MVP out in the marketing without hiring a CTO. Now, will VCs invest in you if you don’t have one? That’s another question (maybe I’ll cover later)!! #fundraising #startups #startuptips #workingmom #claudecode

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black_dad_engineer
Black_dad_engineer :
I agree hiring a factional or silly contract an engineer. With that said the “pretty code” isn’t just UI it’s also UX and scalable code which is what a lot of “vibe coders” don’t understand. VCs are very deadline oriented. So if you Frankenstein you MvP and then need to spend the first 4/6 weeks after funding on refactoring that’s an issue. And no Claude will not refactor affectively especially when third party libraries or sdks are involved
2026-07-29 17:48:30
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marcu5s95
marcus :
Claude won't build no mvp Stop lying to people
2026-07-29 11:22:15
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sheila_pande
sheila!digital mental health :
💯💯💯 Altho it’s clear that many VCs aren’t onboard with this yet
2026-07-29 04:54:26
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junos_mommy1973
Junos_Mommy :
Our MVP is built on Airtable, Buble and Shopify. Although it’s starting to get a little cumbersome
2026-07-29 06:16:02
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ginakimizatan
Gina Kimiza Tan :
such a real take, wish more non-technical founders heard this before over-investing in a CTO too early
2026-08-04 15:51:32
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andreazechmann0
Andrea Zechmann - Startup GTM :
Great advice — I’ve seen so many founders think they need to build the product right away without really figuring out GTM and really testing if people will actually pay for it
2026-08-09 17:19:31
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byandrewilson1
André Wilson Style :
I needed this. Thank you
2026-07-29 05:46:17
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josephholsten
Joseph A P Holsten :
This! As a startup director of engineering: talk to the ICPs! Stop letting programmers build the perfect MVP. No! You’ll mom-test yourself so hard and the pivot will suck so much worse.
2026-07-29 07:55:05
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latrcart
latrcart :
👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
2026-08-07 13:51:43
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