I try to put myself in the shoes of the technical co-founder. Imagine how annoying it must be to meet all these people who want you to build their site, without

I try to put myself in the shoes of the technical co-founder. Imagine how annoying it must be to meet all these people who want you to build their site, without paying you a lot of money, and while keeping most of their equity. First, what are the technical co-founders getting out of it if the risk fails? Next, how exactly are you, the non-technical entrepreneur, going to pull your weight? The scary thing about startup weekends are how many idea people walk around looking for others to build their product. I'm a designer and even I got stalked. So I've decided to try and hack together whatever I can, just to show my potential future technical co-founder that I'm willing to do the dirty work and pull my weight. Do whatever you can, use wordpress temporarily, get started by outsourcing the work, set up a landing page with email signups. Show your co-founder that you've taken significant steps, minimize their risk, prove your product or service has traction, and already start heading towards some kind of success. Make it so that your co-founder doesn't have to build everything from scratch. A product/service is what makes a company. Asking a programmer to make your product is basically asking them to build the foundation of your company for you. And no one is going to do that.