When looking a team of an online venture, assuming it's a seed round, does not having a technical team member really hurt an investors opinion? Or is this something this can be viewed as a first hire or outsourced.

It really depends on the business but speaking for us, a strong technical founder is critical. Most of our investments are centered around a technical thesis and our confidence in a company’s ability to evolve, change or just deepen the technology around this thesis will be highly dependent on the team/person responsible for it.

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