Hi guys,
I was just wondering if you were someone who had little to no grounding in tech as a founder of a tech (mobile app) company. Would you direct your efforts into CS/learning how to program or would you develop your business acumen / softer skills, potentially considering an MBA in marketing? I have no intention of writing the program but hope to find a tech confounder who would or at least be able to liaise with a dev team.
TIA
Marketing/business/finance/ops etc.
Whatever you do to learn CS as a half measure will only take your focus away from the stuff you should be doing (and annoy the tech folks).
Agreed. Nothing annoys technical people more than johnny-come-latelys who imagine they can learn your whole career in a month.
If OP loved code, it probably would have already come up in their life.
I do think everyone should learn something about technology project management, software design life cycle etc. - but not everyone needs to learn how to code.
I do think everyone should learn to code. Not a lot, necessarily, but enough that they realize that computers aren’t magic boxes, they do what they’re told - designing programs is mostly about figuring what you actually want to the computer to do, and only then working out how to tell them. As a business leader, the first part is something you need to understand well, because you’ll be doing it constantly (if only at a high level).
That said, if you’re interested in starting a business, there’s a shit ton of stuff you should be mainlining first. Economics, accounting and finance, presentation skills, employment law, product management, relevant portions of law, knowledge of whatever sector you’re working in. Your time is valuable so make the most of it.