Speaking for myself: you need to bring something to the table other than an idea. Ideally you should bring cash, at the very least the cash required to buy the

Speaking for myself: you need to bring something to the table other than an idea. Ideally you should bring cash, at the very least the cash required to buy the hardware and software you need, even if the technical co-founder agrees to work for free. Even better, bring connections and customers. Best, bring a throwaway prototype, built by coders-for-hire or hacked together with your limited technical skills. For very hard problems, a prototype may be too difficult, in which case, you're asking your technical co-founder to try and build something nobody is sure can be built. That's a huge risk, so then bringing cash to the table becomes even more important.