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The $100 MBA Show

MBA147 Q&A Weekend: Want to start an online business but hate technology. Should I find a techie partner?

The $100 MBA Show

Omar Zenhom

Careers, Entrepreneurship, Business, Marketing

4.91.2K Ratings

🗓️ 24 January 2015

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

Want to launch an online business but you're not that much of a techie? In today's Q&A Weekend episode we answer a listener's question on whether or not finding a techie business partner instead is worth doing to launch an online business. Start your weekend right by pressing that play button now!

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0:00.0

Hey, welcome to the Hunter-Armba show and today is a Q&A show and today is a Q&A weekend episode where we answer your questions right here on the show.

0:15.8

If you have a question you want us to answer, just email us at contact at 100 MBA.net

0:20.9

or you can use our Speak It option where we record your voice asking the question and

0:25.8

then we play right here on the show you can find that on our show page at 100 MBA

0:29.9

dot net slash show today's question comes from James and James asks I want to start an online

0:36.4

business but I hate technology should I find a techie partner thanks for your

0:41.4

question James is a good one I'm gonna you an answer, so let's get down to business.

0:47.0

All right, James, you're asking if you should take on a partner who's a little bit more

0:57.1

technical, a little bit more of a techie than you are because you want to start an online

1:01.0

business, but you hate technology.

1:03.4

First of all, I do think you should be acquainted with how to use your website, how to edit a

1:07.4

blog post, how to add information, and this is not particularly difficult now with some of the platforms you have available.

1:14.2

I mean you have WordPress and you have Squarespace, which is extremely easy to use.

1:18.0

You do not need to be techie.

1:19.2

You can learn how to use Squarespace in a weekend and you can just focus on your content.

1:24.3

So I don't think you should be looking for a partner solely because they are a techie.

1:29.7

They also have to have the same values as you, have the same vision for the business, because a partner means

1:35.4

they're sharing equity. That means they're sharing a part of the business and part of the revenue.

1:39.3

And I'm not saying getting a partner is a bad idea. It could be a great idea. Heck, me and a coal are partnership. So I don't necessarily

1:46.2

think that you should not get a partner, but I don't think you should get a partner solely based on this idea of

1:51.2

just because you don't like technology.

1:52.8

Now there's nothing wrong with not preferring to understand

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