Wannabe entrepreneur symptoms and cures
> [...] or learn how to code yourself. It's not that hard, and if you think of startups as a career, it's a great skill to have even if you just manage tech people.<p>I disagree strongly. Coding is a great skill and just about everyone should be familiar with it, but telling starry-eyed entrepreneurs they can learn to code well enough to launch a successful tech startup on their own in a short timeframe is extremely misleading. Coding and design are the core competencies of any tech/web startup, and you can't hope to succeed if you're essentially an amateur at your core competency. Because the fact is, coding may not be hard, but coding well and being responsible for the software infrastructure of a successful project <i>is</i> hard and isn't something you can pick up overnight.<p>By all means, learn to code. It will help you in innumerable ways, and maybe after a few years of practice you can start to think about launching a cool project on your own. But don't be deluded into thinking you can pick up "Ruby for Dummies" and have a hot new web startup 6 months later without some real technical expertise.