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Re: Not sure what to do with my startup idea

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Sam has a great blog post about this: http://blog.samaltman.com/non-technical-founder-learn-to-hac... The title says it all - learn to hack.

That was a great blog post, thank you for sharing that with me. I'm going to start learning how to build my own prototype.

Re: Not sure what to do with my startup idea

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If you've been doing digital marketing for 8 years and are pretty damn good at it, I'm surprised that you're having trouble paying for a coder. Digital marketing is typically closer to sales and revenues. The effect your work has has (and thus your compensation) can be orders of magnitude higher than programmers.

Re: Not sure what to do with my startup idea

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post #13

If you've been doing digital marketing for 8 years and are pretty damn good at it, I'm surprised that you're having trouble paying for a coder. Digital marketing is typically closer to sales and revenues. The effect your work has has (and thus your compensation) can be orders of magnitude higher than programmers.

I think you'll find salaries are about the same. Without going into executive level management, a senior digital marketer will earn around $70k to $160k in western markets in my experience.

Re: Not sure what to do with my startup idea

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post #13

If you've been doing digital marketing for 8 years and are pretty damn good at it, I'm surprised that you're having trouble paying for a coder. Digital marketing is typically closer to sales and revenues. The effect your work has has (and thus your compensation) can be orders of magnitude higher than programmers.

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Re: Not sure what to do with my startup idea

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hiring a coder is going to be very costly once programming and design are included You should start learning about coding now, not with the intention of building the app yourself, but with the intention of becoming more knowledgeable about what the developer's job entails. If you find a developer and say "build me an app" you might get estimates like 12 months and $50k. If you know that you just need a news feed, you…

Good idea, I have some basic programming language but not enough to code something like this completely on my own. I'll start reading up on Phonegap and seeing how I can narrow down exactly what I want to get it a cheaper price as well. That Medium story is awesome, thanks for that!

I made this free tutorial series for PhoneGap/Cordova (http://app-o-mat.com) -- it assumes you know HTML/JS (but not too much)
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