As a technologist at feel at times that web entrepreneurship is all about writing: most entrepreneurs I have met outsource coding to someone else and all they do is write: blog posts, tweets, emails to investors, answering support forum questions...
It's common to hear stories that begin with "Sergey and Larry..." but I doubt those guys spent any time blogging and tweeting about how awesome Google was going to be. Just one more reason to be more like S&G, that's all :)
There is one exception though: startup speed, it comes from just the fact that you're written in C, the same language the OS is written in, which means that majority of dynamic libraries you depend on are already loaded, that's what makes piping simple programs like "wc" possible.
It's common to hear stories that begin with "Sergey and Larry..." but I doubt those guys spent any time blogging and tweeting about how awesome Google was going to be. Just one more reason to be more like S&G, that's all :)