Jessica Livingston Quotes

Jessica Livingston — American Businesswoman

Jessica Livingston is an author and a founding partner of the seed stage venture firm Y Combinator. She also organizes Startup School. Previously, she was the VP of marketing at Adams Harkness Financial Group. She has a B.A. in English from Bucknell University... (wikipedia)

Finding a programmer to work with if you don't already know one will be a challenge. Merely judging if a programmer is exceptional vs. competent will be very hard if you are not one yourself. When you do find someone, work together informally for a while to test your compatibility.

Cofounders will endure so much together that their relationship is often compared to a marriage.

Finding a technical cofounder would have been difficult for me. I was an English major and didn't know any computer programmers.