Heyo! Welcome to the $100 MBA Show, the place to be to build a business you want with our practical business lessons. I'm your host, your coach, your teacher Omar is at home, and in today's episode you will learn how to find a CTO or a technical co-founder.

One of the biggest dilemmas for a lot of entrepreneurs who want to start a SAS business, a

software as a service business, is they're not technical. They're not a developer and

engineer themselves but they have a great idea they think they can solve a

problem in the market they know the market well they just don't have the

technical know-how to build a build to build it as well as build a technical team around it.

This begs the question, how do you find a CTO, a chief technical officer, or a technical co-founder that you can partner up with.

Well, you're in luck. I built a software company called Webinar Ninja

for 10 years, been lucky enough to grow to 30,000 users, and was acquired recently

by ProProProfts.

And I'm a non-technical co-founder.

So I'm going to share with you three ways that I have found works the best

when it comes to finding a CTO or a technical co-finder for your business idea.

There's a lot of ways to do this, but these three ways are the best I found in my experience.

Speaking of experience, I've had more than one CTO in the

course of 10 years. I'll explain why. I'll explain how I found each one and

how to go about finding your technical partner in building your dream SAS business.

Let's get into it. Let's get down to business.

Just to be totally clear, trying to find somebody to go into business with or to be responsible of something majorly part of the success of the business like the technical aspects of a software company which is basically the product is like finding a partner in life.

It's very very similar because the stakes are high. You're going to have to

invest a lot of time, money, energy into this relationship for it to work. And finding this person is just

as hard as finding a partner in life. But there are some tried and true ways that I

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