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>Marketing: The worst. I’m bad at it and it just does not interest me. Building the correct product and learning to sell it is a clear area for me to improve.

Why improve? There are lots of people out there with marketing skills looking for side gigs. Find a co-founder that is willing to do the marketing, customer acquisition side.

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Any recommendations on where to find people like this? I have the same issue as the GP.

I'd look around for startup-networking meetups in your area. I've been to Seattle Startup Drinks on a number of occasions, and there are plenty of more "business-side" people that show up looking exactly for us--I didn't even have any interesting ideas to share, but when they heard I was a dev, I was instantly one of the most popular people there.

Same as what xxr said below. Meetups.com usually will list informal or formal get togethers. Could also email your local startup association/incubator and ask. They may know of people hanging around or coming out of a startup and are looking for a new project. Also check out reddit subs /r/startups and /r/entrepreneurs I see a lot of "marketing experts" on there, however I would take anyone on the internet claiming to be an expert or a "growth hacker" with a grain of salt.

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I was thinking a part time marketing job would be an ideal gig for a woman who's looking after young kids, has experience and wants to work 5-20 hours a week on something interesting to keep their eye in. I'd look in those circles.

The same way non tech folks are terrible at hiring programmers is the same way tech folks are bad at hiring sales & marketing folks. Many people who claim to be good at marketing at terrible, worse you might end up with someone tarnishing your image by spamming your product or even getting your site blacklisted by Google due to bad SEO.

So do tell, how can we evaluate and vet that someone is good at sales & marketing?

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