hey I founded a tech startup...OH SHIT I CAN'T CODE. #barcampsg7

First public talk I did!

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1. hey I just founded a tech startup...
   OH SHIT I CAN’T CODE @elishatan
2. What you’re gonna hear • Should you, the non-techie founder, learn programming?! • What should you do before learning?! • What and how should you learn?! • Will learning pay off?
3. Who’s this person? I'm Elisha Tan. I did Psychology in NUS, graduated in 2010 and did social media marketing at a couple of startups. In late 2010, I was accepted at the Singapore Founder Institute and I founded Learnemy, a web application that finds you instructors for anything you want to learn.! I am proficient in MS office and Paint, which ! enabled me to create the picture you see ! on the right.
4. What’s the story? • Spend about 3 months looking for technical co-founder cluelessly! • Got into a service partnership with other founders! • Quit my job! • Did my mockups ! • Service partnership failed
5. Forever alone
6. Should you, or should you not? Should Should not • If you outsource, you can’t tell if you get bullshit. • You can’t hire for a job you don’t know. • You should know your product. • You give programmers respect, and you’ll give the right impressions. • It will take long for you to be proficient in coding. • Too much time spent
9. Roadmap Decide to code
10. Roadmap Decide to code Fake your MVP
11. Before you code... Learn HTML and CSS so that you can fake it till you make it! - http://www.w3schools.com/! - http://css-tricks.com/! - http://colorschemedesigner.com/! - Rentoid! - Learnemy
12. Design is hard You want to be a great artist... ! “Good artists copy, great artists steal” - Pablo Picasso That’s what he said!
15. Firebug is your best friend http://getfirebug.com/
16. Other sites • Learn about design! • http://uxmag.com/! • http://www.smashingmagazine.com/! • http://www.danlockton.com/dwi/Main_Page! • Testing! • http://www.usaura.com/!
17. Roadmap Decide to code Fake your MVP Decide a language
18. You are going to be very confused over what language to learn. Python is so easy to learn! Look at him, he learned Django in 3 weeks! RoR is easy to learn and the syntax is beautiful! Use PHP. Because Facebook uses PHP. AngularJS is powerful and easy to learn.
19. So learn whatever from anyone who’s willing to lend a helping hand.
20. Ruby on rails Ruby on Rails Tutorial by Michael Hartl! http://ruby.railstutorial.org/ruby-on-rails-tutorial-book! ! Ruby On Rails 3 Beginner To Builder 2011 by Richard Schneeman! http://ontwik.com/ruby/ruby-on-rails-3-beginner-to-builder-2011-week-1-2-3/! ! Rails for zombies by Envy Labs! http://railsforzombies.com/! ! Rails guides! http://guides.rubyonrails.org/getting_started.html! ! ! !
21. Demo
22. Bonus
    Things I wanted to tell you but didn’t know where it fit into the presentation • Join google groups! • Start a blog! - Remember your SEO
23. Learn programming www.tech.learnemy.com
24. Thank you! @elishatan! www.Learnemy.com