[dhbradshaw]

I've now helped two successful companies get off the ground. In both cases, it wasn't Excel skills that made it happen. It wasn't my code either, although that helped. It was B2B sales. And I don't mean that just in terms of bringing in the money; the people doing the selling also learned what we needed to build to do that selling.

So although I would never administer a test saying "please find the formula errors" to a potential cofounder, I do have a basic pass or fail test: "Can you lead product through sales?" If you can, I can build it and we'll get rich. If not, I'm not sure what value you can bring. I can build projects on spec all by myself.