At the risk of being down-voted, there is too much arrogance in the comments of this thread. I run into this constantly and I find it mind-blowing. There is ve

At the risk of being down-voted, there is too much arrogance in the comments of this thread. I run into this constantly and I find it mind-blowing. There is very little respect for the skills and talents of people in different disciplines. It's not just hackers beating on "Business People". It's accountants beating on marketers and hackers. Marketers beating on accountants and hackers. It's one big circle of disrespect. I really don't understand it at all. Becoming an expert in any one of those disciplines takes a lot of time, effort and discipline. Why such little respect for your colleagues? Selling is hard, it takes a long time to be good at selling. I'm a founder of a tech startup, have money, am in an incubator, launched a product with another major release on its way, and I've chosen to not hire several hackers because of this mentality. If they can't respect the skills of their co-workers then I don't think they'll be able to help build a winning company. It's a losing attitude - on a football team, imagine if the wide receivers decided to not join the huddle because they think the o-linemen and the QB don't do enough. In that case, though, their value seems obvious - to the outside observer, anyway. The problem I find in my city isn't in finding the hackers, there are many places to find them. It's convincing them to try something beyond their comfortable day jobs. The good ones tend to have jobs that pay them well in which they don't want to leave and our universities teach the students to seek jobs at the big companies. So our pool is very small. The middle of Canada is also not really a tech hotbed, unfortunately. I think we can all agree that success comes from excellent execution. This means excellence in _all_ areas. Engineering, sales, marketing, accounting, design, customer service, etc. ::Warning, Combative Tone Ahead:: To all the 'technical' people in the world: Being a superstar in sales, accounting, or marketing is just as hard as being a superstar in engineering. Stop belittling your colleagues, you're not going to win. /combat stance To the non-technical people: Check GitHub for technical people in your city and network with a bunch of the high level execs in the dev companies around your city. The world is a small place, they all know each other.