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What does an idea person without software skills or business education do?

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Re: What does an idea person without software skills or business education do?

#11
Perhaps she could find a job in one of the companies who have built successful products matching her ideas. That will give her a chance to see up close how it's done, while building her own skillset. She might meet some new people who she could then team up with to start something of her own.

The other thing of course is to just take a chance and try making something, if she can find someone to work with. She could look into outsourcing the programming.

Generally, it's hard to say anything useful without knowing what her ideas are about.

Re: What does an idea person without software skills or business education do?

#12
If she is already working as a web designer, learning JS (with libraries such as jQuery) would be a great first step. This way, she could start prototyping her UIs to convince other people to help with the server-side components.

Also, she could take that skill to a design-challenged startup with a hot idea!

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