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Why the f* does drivel like this ever make the front page? Is Ninja Pirate Generalisimo taken?

Voting rings.

It's a wonderful counterpoint to the "old innovators" piece earlier . . .

That snark aside, I commend Smit on his (meta?) self-promotion. He's "hustling" a blog post about "hustling". And we all read it. Success! I don't like the content much but there's a certain poetry to the whole thing.

Thanks for the kind words haha. The post was more to serve as a quick summary of what non technical founders should do :)

To summarize, a Full Stack Hustler can sell, market and understand technology. Instead of being a Growth Hacker, everyday I’m striving to learn and become a Full Stack Hustler. IMHO, this is what makes a great startup founder and work well with a technical founder.

The more I learn about businesses (from developing them and from helping people with them), the more I move away from this type of thinking. I use to market myself as a growth hacker. Because yeah, I can do that with no problem. But the issue is that growth hacking is a bad way to call it. I refuse to call it Full-Stack Hustling, because that is just plain weird. What I call it now is business development. From refining the business model, to finding new ways to profit, to negotiating better deals, to simply developing the business in any way. So, call me a business developer. That's all you got be focused on doing.

interesting. would you include marketing in business development?

Of course. It is required.

In my experience, good BD folks have to possess all of these skills / knowledge sets to one degree or another in order to be really good at what they do. However, "BD" in a role-description sense is usually limited to covering partnerships and (sometimes) sales.

I agree with you Felix. BD is normally associated with partnerships and sales which is why I decided to use Full Stack Hustler to cover a wider range of skills.

tl,dr:

Being a good marketer/promoter/seller that understands technology is what makes a great startup founder.

EDIT: This is the summary from the article, not my opinion.

No, it does not. I know plenty of good marketers that are shitty founders.

selling and marketing plus understand technology is what makes a good combination. cannot leave either of three out.

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