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Growth · May 25, 2011

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Business/Idea guy who built something to learn how to do it

I’m a non-technical idea guy and a business guy that has been successful in my work for other startups. As someone who has been a founding employee at more than one startup, I’ve gotten to a point where I am sitting on ideas I think are brilliant and would love to build. I’ve noticed how difficult it is to find a technical co-founder, let alone convince them to come on board with an idea. That turned into a project for me, learn to build something myself. So I built a site that is meant to help idea/marketing guys connect with technical co-founders and vice versa.…

Business/Idea guy who built something to learn how to do it launched on May 25, 2011 with 13 votes, #49 of 217 launches that month and more than 50% of that year's launches.

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In plain words

Incubation Queue is a platform that connects non-technical entrepreneurs and business-minded individuals with technical co-founders. It helps both sides find potential partners to collaborate on startup ideas. The site was built by an experienced startup founder who wanted to learn web development while addressing a real problem he encountered: the difficulty of finding and recruiting technical collaborators for promising business concepts.

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I’m a non-technical idea guy and a business guy that has been successful in my work for other startups. As someone who has been a founding employee at more than one startup, I’ve gotten to a point where I am sitting on ideas I think are brilliant and would love to build. I’ve noticed how difficult it is to find a…

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