Need some advice, quickly!

[JackW]

Hi guys! I've in following this forum around for a while and has soaked up alot of the information given out, and I take time to thank everyone that has been so helpful!

Oh, and I'm a 16 year old aspiring entrepreneur that will be starting his senior year in high school in about a month or so.

I have a very interesting idea that has very strong competition (office supplies) but has a VERY VERY interesting twist to it, something that I don't think has been done.

I'm not entirely sure if I should share the idea here yet since its still in beta test.

However, I have only $150 start up capital but has established relationships with my wholeseller, and is able to get the actual products very cheap and in large quanitity. The wholeseller is verified as reliable and accepts PAYPAL (Screw WesternUnion).

The problem is, I have no website coding skill at all nor will I ever WANT to learn it. I took at CS class last year and I absolutely hated it! (We did java based coding).

I understand a large majority of business is actually the formation of relationships. However, there is absolutely nobody at my high school that is actually has the tenacity and risk taking characteristic as I do (Trust me if there was, he would be my best friend). All of them seem to focused on school, and believe that without all these qualifications (SAT, ACT, Etc) their lives will be over.

So, any advice on how fix my lack of coding experience? I'm willing to do anything possible to make this project a reality!

Thanks a lot guys to read this long post
Jack

[mtnjkwe]

Hi Jack,

I admire your entrepreneurial passion, and guess what I am willing to help you for free, if possible. Drop me a mail at m @ njmart.in , and I'll see what we can do.
Why am I helping you? I have a goal of helping 5 young entrepreneurs set themselves up online per month.

[KyleXY]

One thing I want to note Jack, don't let one experience with CS ruin it for you for programming as a whole even though you may never actually end up learning or wanting to pursue that route. Think of it as you just went to a breakfast restaurant for the first time and had pancakes there for the first time. They just have extremely bad pancakes even though you probably would have loved pancakes normally. Yet because of this one experience, you decide you hate all pancakes for life.

That's about the equivalent of what you're saying about that one CS class and Java. It could be the language, it could have been the class and the way the professor taught it, or it could be a number of other things. A lot of self taught programmers and CS grad students have been through something similar. Some have a love for specific languages, others absolutely certain languages. Many take a long time to adopt something they like.

Not trying to convince you to program as I recognize it is definitely not for everyone. However, this principle I'm trying to drive home here stands not just for programming, but for everything, even pancakes ^_~ Part of being an entrepreneur is finding what you love and pursuing it relentlessly and pivoting as needed to make it work when one model fails. If you have bad experience, do you merely give up and say it isn't for you? Some entrepreneurs fail a LOT before finally realizing what they need to fix. Never allow one experience to dictate your reasoning for doing or not doing something until you've attempted to see it from all angles.

That said, whether you do decide to continue learning to program or not, I wish you the best.

[nick1resume]

Hi Jack,

I admire your entrepreneurial passion, and guess what I am willing to help you for free, if possible. Drop me a mail at m @ njmart.in , and I'll see what we can do.
Why am I helping you? I have a goal of helping 5 young entrepreneurs set themselves up online per month.

that so kind of you for free consultation, can i email personally and ask for some guidance? thanks in advance!

[guidemesingapore]

Coding skills are no issue. You can get lots of cheap programmers online or simply offer someone an initial profit sharing package. Many people do business online without knowing any kind of coding or design. You need to work with the right people to succeed. Not have all the skills yourself.