I’m a recent The Pennsylvania State University Marketing / Management graduate and I have start-up ideas, dreams, and aspirations.

I want to talk about the cliché of being the business guy do start-ups need us that much for marketing, paperwork, and sales; as much as they need coders?

One of my goals is to work for a start-up or be a founding member in one.

For the people reading people who have worked in or with a startup, when does the idea or project need the business people?

I been searching on the jobs thing here, I seen an opportunity with airbnb.com but I was running my small business here in Philadelphia, only to have it die due to The State of Pennsylvania having a budget crisis and me realizing that was the industry for me or my passion.

I was working on a project with a friend who is Majoring in Computer Science @ PSU. He’s in his final semester, we were trying to get to alpha by September. Since he is in his final semester and working crazy hours at the PSU IST Help desk, he hasn’t been working on it as much as he was before school started back up.

As the business guy I want to get it to alpha so I can get feedback and develop marketing plans, etc. I want to go-go-go; being 200 miles apart doesn’t help (Philadelphia-to-State College), I don’t want to slave drive him because when he was coding I felt bad I couldn’t contribute to what matter most developing the site.

Coders reading what do you think about that?

Fallacy of a good idea: Gotta implement before someone else does or you will be left in the dust. I am trying to teach myself the basics, such as HTML with hopes of going to PHP so I can contribute but that will take time.

For you hackers reading my question is where do I start? I understand it can be a rough and rugged road to learning

This is my first post, I hope it isn’t to long and I am looking forward to discussion.

Stan