TechCrunch pushes Start-ups to fail

If you want to announce your start-up on TechCrunch50 the only thing you need to do is to sell your soul to the Devil deny your prospective customers access to your web site. Here's the quote:

Rules of participation in TechCrunch50
Until its presentation on stage at the conference, a company will keep its site password protected with limited private access to alpha or beta users for testing purposes.

That means that you have to decrease your popularity, get less testing and less feedback, get less word of mouth, and ultimately get less revenue.

On the other hand, your participation in TechCrunch50 would be free.

Free is good, isn't it?

Geeks Rule and MBAs

Eric Sink (SourceGear) recommends to start software company with developers only.
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Geeks Rule and MBAs Drool

It is common to see software companies starting out with two founders, a geek and an MBA. Do you really need the MBA?

If I were to oversimplify the message of this article, I would make two statements:

Developers add more value to a software company than anybody else.
The truth of statement 1 is inversely correlated with the size of the company.
When a company is very small or just getting started, nobody can add value as well as a developer because there isn't really much other stuff that needs to be done. You don't have customers yet.
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