The Liability That Kills Countless Startups, And How To Stop It
One of the most significant problems for any technology startup
is coding/programming ignorance by the founders. It’s a story
that I’ve heard time and time again. One or two business-focused
founders seek out an engineer to build their product. Months
later the developer stops working on it, and often times all
communication ceases. The founders suddenly realize that they
gave the keys to the business to the developer, who is now
nowhere to be found. Crap!  It doesn’t matter if the developer
is a “co-founder”, close friend, or anything else, the worse
case scenario happens way too often. You would imagine that the
business savvy founders would know how to prevent against this
problem but they don’t because they literally know very little
about coding.  Rather than go on and on about all the founders
who have been screwed by this, let me just give you the easy way
to prevent this from happening: have your developer use a github
account managed by