Should a tech founder look for a non-tech co-founder?
edw519: "Assume a solo tech founder has all the skills needed to complete a given Web application for a startup."A huge assumption.If you're wrong about that and you get a non-tech co-founder, you're toast.Personally, I'd hedge my bets with a second tech and worry about the non-tech stuff later.I have been in the exact same situation twice before and here's what happened both times:  I was working 100 hour weeks and my partner was bored.  Then he went out and oversold what I could have delivered.  A disaster.  Twice.  (You'd think I'd have learned.)The problem isn't whether you have the skills for what is needed.  It's whether you have the time to do it.  I underestimated what it would take and didn't account for all kinds of stuff.  It's a very easy trap to fall into, believe me.  The stuff that bites you in the butt down the line will be technical; count on it.I would have traded either non-technical partner for a fellow hacker in a heartbeat.  If I had, who knows, you may have been reading this at Eddie News instead while I typed it from my yacht.  Don't make the same mistake as me.  Get another tech.