How to answer if you have a technical cofounder (but you don't need one)

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Has anyone raised capital as a “non-technical” founder with Bubble?

I am curious how you responded to questions about this topic. “You don’t have a technical co-founder.” or “Does Nocode scale well enough to be a backable venture?”

I am “capable” of coding, I have done it before, but the reason I chose Bubble, is I thought coding for days made no sense. This tool makes my ideas come alive faster, especially since I understand the logic as an engineer, Bubble is pretty easy.

If you have experience raising capital and have been asked this question before, I would love to know how you answered it.

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Although no code is great when you’re running an actual company even with no code you need to be able to make quick technical pivots when disaster strikes. This can be something as small as relearning to build the app in a scaleable manor (90% of the apps I’ve seen aren’t at all, even the funded ones), or as big as a data leak that you need to address, play damage control and pivot. When scaling the development side of a a project is almost a full time job for someone even within the no code space.

My biggest mistake in my first startup that raised 380k 5 years ago (on a bubble app) was my inability to realize how important a strong team was and trying to wear all the hats even though I had a partner.

Investors don’t tend to look at people who think they can do it all as viable investments because it’s risky.

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Hey thanks for the response. I understand building out a team.

I have a team. I also have a development team to tale the “pivots” like you said. I am also able to do many of the pivots.

So i have the team, they just arent equity holders because i sont need them to be, right now.

So trying to figure out how to navigate that.

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As a 2x quasi technical founder heres how I interpert the question: “Do you have the tech chops to set up proper DB schema and understand devops and security and measure tech debt and performance?”

If the answer to that Q is NO then that’s why a investor prefers a technical co-founder

And if it’s YES then you ARE a technical cofounder

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