Seeking advice from non-tech solo founders on fundraising

Speaking from my angel investing experience and time spent in VC startups and working on numerous fundraising rounds, I can tell you that there are plenty of successful non-tech solofounders and teams out there.

Some things I learned:

• If the product is super technical (e.g. AI, ML) you definitely need a tech founder or people will not believe that you can pull this off.
• If you are doing it solo or are a non-tech founding team, you better have superior skills in marketing, sales, or maybe even an insane network you can easily recruit from. I have seen several very successful (and raising tons of money) non-tech teams because they were exceptionally good at selling the product (or even MVP). Your USP as founder needs to be strong.
• Non-tech founders need a product that sells easily, and ideally to other non-tech people. If you sell to sales, marketing, HR, finance you have a much higher credibility than if you want to sell to techies & devs.
• Non-tech teams can outsource the first few iterations of their product to an agency, or get away with a nocode solution. But eventually (after Series A latest in my experience), investors will want to see a CTO and product team added to the team.
• If you are 2 or more non-tech founders, are you ready to have your shares heavily diluted by tech people that join you later down the road?
• In your business model and financial projections, are you considering the cost of outsourcing the development and/or later down the road hiring a product team? Your business idea might make sense now, but can you maintain this at a higher price point and higher CLTV? This can kill lots of ideas because your R&D costs go sky high with a hired tech team.