No Nerds No Problem
No Nerds No Problem
James Knight
Building a startup is hard. Doing it as a non-technical founder? Even harder. NN:NP shares stories and tips aimed at helping non-technical founders build and launch their businesses.
0x04 - Brett Calhoun - How to Raise Capital as a Non-Technical Founder
Brett Calhoun is a director at Scale, a Venture Studio and Accelerator Fund based in Columbia, MO. In this episode, we discuss the challenges of raising capital as a non-technical founder—especially for those that find themselves outside of markets like Silicon Valley or NYC. It's a must-listen for *anyone* looking to fundraise this coming year.
Jun 13, 2022
35 min
0x03 - Jared Robin - How Generosity Can Build a 24K Member Community—And Give You a Launchpad for Testing Your Products
Jared Robin (revgenius.com) is a champion for those in Sales & Marketing. Over the last 2 years, Jared's hard work and boundless generosity have built RevGenius into a 24K+ member community. We talk about how "just being helpful" is all you need to attract like-minded people, about the collection of No Code and Low Code tools that power RevGenius, and how Jared was able to use the community as a personal testing ground and launchpad for a product that was profitable from Day 1. 
Jun 6, 2022
43 min
0x02 - Sahil Khosla - How to Leverage the No Code Ecosystem to Hit Market Faster—All While Saving $$$ Along the Way
Sahil Khosla (https://sahilkhosla.com/) is the master of all things No Code. In this episode, we explore the ever-growing world of tools, platforms, and service providers helping non-technical founders build and grow their products without writing a single line of code. We touch on everything from App Builders, to workflow automation, to data processing and analysis—all tools you can use to hit market faster and spend less of your runway getting there.
May 23, 2022
45 min
0x01 - Eric Menna - How to Get Customer Feedback Before Spending $10K+ on Development
For our first episode, I sat down with Eric Menna, co-founder at Loper (getloper.com) to talk about his experience using a "concierge prototype" to get initial customer feedback before going into fullscale development on their mobile app.
May 16, 2022
1 hr 6 min
0x00 - Introduction to No Nerds No Problem
Building a startup as a non-technical founder is like playing on hard mode. You've got no shortage of Vision. But you can't build that Vision yourself. Getting it built means entering into the world of Nerds. As someone who doesn't speak the language of Tech, interfacing with that world can be exhausting. You can spend hours digesting the jargon, the buzzwords, the endless list of frameworks, platforms, and providers. That's time you could spend doing what matters most to any founder: Growing your business. No Nerds No Problem helps you close that gap and get back to doing what you do best. Each week, I'll be speaking with experts from all over the startup ecosystem, diving deep on the topics most relevant to you, the non-technical founder. I'll chat with investors, consultants, and other founders just like you, bringing you the advice you need to be able to confidently say: "No Nerds? No Problem."
May 9, 2022
2 min