What's it like to be non-technical and own a company?

Re:What's it like to be non-technical and own a company? by fullsail111 on Sunday February 13, 2011 @08:45PM (#2214873)

How about a company that offers a technical co-founder as a service.

You could take your idea to them and they would decided weather or not that wanted to work with you.

If both sides agree they took you on as a client for a 20% cut.

For the programmers it would give them a chance to work on multiple startups per year and for the client they would get the expertise or help they needed.

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Re:What's it like to be non-technical and own a company? by trotzke on Tuesday February 15, 2011 @09:33AM (#2221300)

This is pretty much what we do at SproutBox. Though we offer a whole team: designers, coders, accounting and HR support, etc. It's pretty rad.

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Re:What's it like to be non-technical and own a company? by darbor on Monday February 14, 2011 @01:28AM (#2215611)

Great idea! It's just what my partner and I need for our start up!I wonder if there is a company out there like this?? .

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Re:What's it like to be non-technical and own a company? by fullsail111 on Monday February 14, 2011 @01:47PM (#2217985)

Its the concept for my ycombinator application for this funding round. Let them know

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Re:What's it like to be non-technical and own a company? by jreilly on Monday February 14, 2011 @08:58AM (#2216746)

Never worked with them but I believe SproutBox out of Bloomington, IN does just this.

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Re:What's it like to be non-technical and own a company? by darbor on Monday February 14, 2011 @10:33AM (#2217068)

Thanks!

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