Non Technical Questions

I'm a non-technical founder who is hiring my first employee, a Ruby on Rails engineer. While I'm great at execution on the business end, I'm clueless when it comes to the actual tech that my...

Hiring Interviews Founders Non Technical Engineers

asked Jun 12 '15 at 00:11

Mary Gould
12 points

I recently had the thought that instead of trying to find a cofounder or two, and promising them inexact amounts of equity (we never hear of 23.61% cofounder equity), I could instead just leverage...

Co-Founder Non Technical

asked Dec 6 '13 at 11:09

User258613
13 points

I am a software engineer and I am thinking about jumping into the startup world. I realize that at some point in my journey, I will need help from someone. This someone could be a coder, or a...

Getting Started Non Technical

asked Apr 7 '12 at 05:55

Denniss
116 points

I have seen similar questions, but am curious if this seems like a fair arrangement. Partner and I have already started a 50/50 split LLC. Myself: Technical vision, skills, no capital investment...

Ideas LLC Partnerships Non Technical

asked Dec 20 '11 at 03:51

Maple Shaft
323 points

How do I approach this situation? I m a non-technical guy, but I want to set up a very basic search engine which would search for data from a MYSQL database of data collected by us.The data is...

Getting Started Co-Founder Technical Non Technical Search Engines

asked Sep 26 '11 at 18:30

User13528
16 points

I'm a college entrepreneur (currently pursuing my bachelors in Business) and I've been studying/reading books about the different strategies that successful business school candidates use to get...

MBA Ideas Non Technical

asked Jun 19 '11 at 14:48

Djs13
30 points

I know this question has already been asked in many ways, but I'm looking for a more general answer. I'd like to know which is the best place to find technical people to work with. Has anybody out...

Technical Partnerships Non Technical

asked May 17 '11 at 19:49

Calixte
137 points

I am a non-IT/techie professional and have created a website through a web designing firm. Although, I have learned about various aspects of designing and running a website through reading, I am no...

Co-Founder Partner Development Technical Non Technical

asked Mar 19 '10 at 01:18

Joydeep
185 points

The subject is the question. How can someone who does not know how to code contribute to a startup? Do you recommend that that member attempt to learn some basic coding so as to contribute to the...

Ideas Founders Business Non Technical

asked Jan 20 '10 at 11:23

Eric Amzalag
818 points