Better answer: go to work at a slightly larger startup, one that'll legitimately hire you in a non-technical role for a real (although likely petite) salary. C

Better answer: go to work at a slightly larger startup, one that'll legitimately hire you in a non-technical role for a real (although likely petite) salary. Customer support or account management. Then, work your ass off. Take all the responsibility you can grab. Try to transition yourself into product management, and learn enough about how your product works to get the respect of the developers. Make a couple of job moves to get product positions with more responsibility, and eventually become a product-oriented founder with some of the developers you worked with. I can tell you from personal experience that that route's worked at least once, and you get paid the entire time. Of course, I wasn't planning any of the above - I just dropped out of my grad program and needed to eat - and it took years. In my experience entrepreneurial non-technical undergrads who 'love startups' have no idea whether they love startups or not - instead, they're in love with the idea of founding a company and are rather impatient about it.