As a passionate developer with a strong zeal to work with emerging startups, I started my journey as a developer, I quickly understood that my clients were looking for much more than that (and that I could contribute more than just writing codes).
I figured out that most of my client's wanted someone who they could trust as a technical partner for their products. Someone, who can give suggestions right from what tech should be picked up, how to get the UI / UX right, how should we plan the product launch a lot more.