| So, this is a pretty decent advice. Basically, the author's idea is that if you: - Treat finding a CTO like a full-time job, - Learn to build some basic HTML, - Read a book on Ruby / Git / Rails, You should be able to find a good CTO for your company. Unfortunately, while this is some pretty good starter advice, I doubt this would help you find a great CTO, first engineer, whatever. Smart people typically want to be around other smart people, and the idea that building a simple HTML page and reading through a single book will let you find an amazing programmer to really build your product is, unfortunately, not realistic. Great programmers look for: - Interesting technical challenges, - To be treated as equals, and have a large amount of influence over technologies, product decisions, etc., - Highly motivated, smart people they can learn from, - Great compensation, - A very strong sense of purpose and direction. If you're a business person who can offer all of the above, you'll probably have a great chance of finding a really awesome tech person to work with. Unless you plan on really getting great with HTML or something of the sort, it's probably a better idea to instead learn to use a tool like balsamiq (http://www.balsamiq.com/) and make some really amazing wireframes instead. At least doing things this way, you'll have a really clean skeleton to show off to people, and help them understand your vision. If you're looking for a programmer out there--best of luck! |