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Ask HN: What’s a not-so-technical technical co-founder to do?
1 point by tg3 on Oct 7, 2011 | hide | past | favorite
Paul Graham (and many others) exhort would-be startup founders to find a co-founder, preferably someone you have a pre-existing relationship with and wouldn’t mind “marrying.” While I have a bunch of friends that I start-up schemed with all through college, none of them are technical. I, a finance major in college, am the most technical one. I taught myself PHP, HTML+CSS, and Javascript+jQuery, which I’ve been playing around with since I was about 13, plus some C# for an internship I had over one summer, but I lack any formal education in CS or engineering (besides a freshman year intro class). I work now as a technology consultant (not a very technical role) but I hope to found a startup before long. What should I do? Become the “technical” founder? Try to hang out with some software engineers? Go solo?



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