"We don't want to blow through our limited capital, so we're looking for 2 junior developers to create our new game changing web property for us.
And praying that what they lack in technical expertise, they make up for in passion"
Seems the author is trading one extreme (too many, too much, too fast) for another (too little). He needs to find the middle ground. Hire a rockstar, pay him a bit more then scale, give him some equity. Let him lead development but be willing to make some product trade offs.
"We don't want to blow through our limited capital, so we're looking for 2 junior developers to create our new game changing web property for us.
And praying that what they lack in technical expertise, they make up for in passion"
Seems the author is trading one extreme (too many, too much, too fast) for another (too little). He needs to find the middle ground. Hire a rockstar, pay him a bit more then scale, give him some equity. Let him lead development but be willing to make some product trade offs.