If they're finding enough qualified applicants, then that's great for them. If not, I just wanted to point out the problems with this scenario that make me as

If they're finding enough qualified applicants, then that's great for them. If not, I just wanted to point out the problems with this scenario that make me as a technical person never ever respond to this. 1) Programmers hate working with empty-drum "idea guys" and that's what it sounds like you are. You don't have a single technical person on the team? It sounds like that since you're offering the CTO position and say "manage all the code and technology behind our product for 12 weeks". I'm not sure how you managed to get into an incubator with no technical person or whether your technical person bailed, but it's a big red flag. If you are a business-only team - what do you bring to the table that the next MBA doesn't? 2) Programmers hate working on crappy code Since we don't know who wrote your code (outsourced to India, an old partner that left?) but we know that you -have- code ("manage all the code and technology behind our product for 12 weeks") then odds are we're going to be walking into a hunk of junk. And worst of all, the idea guys are probably going around telling everyone that it's 90% completed even though it's a crap pile. Again, I don't mean to be a downer (too much). If they're getting plenty of good submissions, then clearly it's just me. But it sounds like they may be having trouble finding someone, and I think this is why. I often see business-founders who can't figure out why they can't attract a good technical person.