Finding a Technical Cofounder

Post by [deleted] » Tue, Nov 15, 2011, 9:44 AM UTC

Post by helipad » Tue, Nov 15, 2011, 10:36 AM UTC

itmag wrote: post #32

Why isn't there kind of a "dating site" for this? Ie, take me as an example: I am in Sweden, am technical, and am interested in meeting a business co-founder with whom I can get to work on an e-learning startup (btw, if anyone is out there, get in touch). Someone should create a site with that kind of granularity. (Yay, HN posting cherry lost!)

Post by itmag » Tue, Nov 15, 2011, 10:49 AM UTC

helipad wrote: post #33

itmag wrote: post #32

Why isn't there kind of a "dating site" for this? Ie, take me as an example: I am in Sweden, am technical, and am interested in meeting a business co-founder with whom I can get to work on an e-learning startup (btw, if anyone is out there, get in touch). Someone should create a site with that kind of granularity. (Yay, HN posting cherry lost!)

There have been attempts at such sites. From experience though, they tend to fill up with "need technical co-founder to build app/social networking site. Don't want to mention what it is in case someone takes idea. Have mockups and list of other sites I like" type posts.

Post by itmag » Tue, Nov 15, 2011, 10:51 AM UTC

j_camarena wrote: post #29

inuhj wrote: post #21

The question I ask myself is why would you want a non-technical founder to learn to code if they will never write production code? The encoded message in most of the replies fall in to a few categories: 1) to understand the technical feasibility of their vision and 2) as a way of showing initiative. #2 is what code jockeys want to see and the natural way for a coder to measure initiative is in lines of code. What non…

True story. I made my landing page .. Learned html and css from zero for that... I got enough clients to be profitable that way and also got selected for startup chile. Im now trying to learn python. Much much better than waiting for miracles

Post by coderdude » Tue, Nov 15, 2011, 11:16 AM UTC

inuhj wrote: post #25

zsherman wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Fair enough, Steve Jobs serves as a prime example for this. Wozniak was a far better engineer than Jobs. I guess I should have elaborated, you don't need to be a coding ninja to run a startup but I do honestly feel that a solid understanding of coding and computer systems is essential for any tech entrepreneur.

Steve Jobs could code. He was a technical founder.