[marknutter]

I'm one of these self-taught guys so my advice is of course going to be to learn it on your own. It takes about 6 months to a year to become pretty proficient in one of the popular web frameworks out there, and along the way you will meet a lot of talented developers - perhaps even future co-founders, who are going to be a lot more willing to work with a hacker/business person rather than just a business person. It's not that you need to become a rockstar developer, you just need to know what it's all about and be able to contribute (and perhaps eventually become a rockstar one day).