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		emmett on March 14, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: New: Apply to Y Combinator without an Idea And yet...Reddit, Facebook, and Dropbox ALL had highly technical founders. I'm not sure about Twitter, but I think so too in that case. So maybe it IS important.

swores on March 14, 2012 [–]

But does that mean that the difference between technical and non-technical makes the difference between success and not, or does it just mean it's the difference between "got an idea, might as well code a bit and see what happens" and "got a great idea... I wonder if I can get some investment"?

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