{"id":301,"date":"2013-12-24T08:00:05","date_gmt":"2013-12-24T13:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/novicenolonger.com\/?p=301"},"modified":"2013-12-24T10:59:11","modified_gmt":"2013-12-24T15:59:11","slug":"quit-wasting-time-searching-for-a-technical-cofounder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novicenolonger.com\/quit-wasting-time-searching-for-a-technical-cofounder\/","title":{"rendered":"Quit wasting time searching for a technical cofounder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"348\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/novicenolonger.com\/quit-wasting-time-searching-for-a-technical-cofounder\/finger-wag-1\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/novicenolonger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/finger-wag-1.gif?fit=484%2C274&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"484,274\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"finger-wag-1\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/novicenolonger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/finger-wag-1.gif?fit=300%2C169&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/novicenolonger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/finger-wag-1.gif?fit=484%2C274&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-348\" alt=\"Finger wag\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/novicenolonger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/finger-wag-1.gif?resize=484%2C274\" width=\"484\" height=\"274\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s no surprise to me that many of my students are searching for a technical cofounder.<\/p>\n<p>If you have a good idea but not\u00a0the ability to bring that product to life, it makes sense to try to find someone with a complimentary skill set: a coder without an idea.<\/p>\n<p>But this thinking is based on flawed logic \u2014 these students are assuming that their idea <em>alone<\/em> is valuable. This is flat-out not true. It&#8217;s the <em>execution<\/em> of an idea, not the idea itself.<\/p>\n<p>Even if you don&#8217;t know how to code, there are a ton of other things you can do that will actually help move your idea forward. Knowing how to code is not the be-all and end-all of building apps or other technical products.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Check out a video I made about the search for technical cofounders:<\/p>\n<div class=\"media-wrap\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KimgdZ_QMIs?rel=0\" height=\"360\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<p>Have you had any luck finding a technical cofounder? Let me know in the comments below!<\/p>\n\n<div style=\"display: block !important; margin:0 !important; padding: 0 !important\" id=\"wpp_popup_post_end_element\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s no surprise to me that many of my students are searching for a technical cofounder. If you have a good idea but not\u00a0the ability to bring that product to life, it makes sense to try to find someone with a complimentary skill set: a coder without an idea. But this thinking is based on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"[VIDEO] Quit wasting time searching for a technical cofounder http:\/\/wp.me\/p46r0N-4R","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[24],"tags":[4,39,65,40,45,38,64,63,66],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p46r0N-4R","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novicenolonger.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/novicenolonger.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/novicenolonger.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novicenolonger.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novicenolonger.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=301"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/novicenolonger.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":350,"href":"https:\/\/novicenolonger.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301\/revisions\/350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novicenolonger.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novicenolonger.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novicenolonger.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}