What tech skills to acquire for a budding net entrepreneur with a business background?

According to Gladwell it takes 10000 hours to become an expert in anything. This is how long it will take to be come a very good developer. But, if you really want to be a successful net entrepreneur you don't need to become a great developer; you need to be able to hire great developers, lead them, know what is possible and what is not.

You have to understand their work but you do not need to be able to do it better than poorly. Here's the list of things I think you need to know how to do (theoretically) and how long it would take a good developer to do them: 1. Register a domain and setup a simple static web site, dns and email forwarding for that domain.2.

Enable Google analytics and Google webmaster on this site. 3. Add a simple database backed web application where users register for an account, activate their account by email and then submit forms or some other simple feature set.

Use a standardized CSS library and Javascript library. 4. Create an information architecture, with content rules, urls, meta keywords and descriptions and perform an SEO analysis of the results.5.

Add AJAX features to the site.6. Format the site for an iPhone or other mobile device.7. Write a simple mobile device using the web application via web services.

Add the web service to the site.8. Investigate what it would take to scale this site for 1 million uniques per day. Once you got through that you'd have a pretty good handle on the technical skills you need to be an tech entrepreneur.

That's a tough question. The hot internet technologies seem to change as often as I change clothes. If you are planning to do any sort of website, you should have more than a passing familiarity with HTML, CSS and possibly XML.

Having excellent programming skills in Java, Javascript and/or PHP are a must-have for any kind of serious internet development, as is a fundamental mastery of some database platform, either Oracle or some form of SQL, but acquiring skills to a level that would be useful to any major website endeavor would take months (if not years) of intense study. I'd hazard that gaining a working knowledge of internet architectures is also a must, though finding a comprehensive course that is current might be a trick. Your best bet would probably be to attempt to acquire a working knowledge of the app-dev cycle, and then apply your business experience to helping other, more technical people stay focused on delivering a quality, usable product.

Many very clever and even brilliant ideas fail because of a lack of common business sense, a failure to understand market conditions, and other skills that even a mediocre business professional can demonstrate in their sleep.

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.