cmon dude why this elitism. each person approaches problems differently. Don't push negativity into OP's brain before it even begins to flourish.
I actually did kickstart projects that became pretty big lifestyle businesses by saying "No, you will not figure out how to raise venture capital. Let's open a text editor and start coding".
And it would be funny, if the massive, collective coding power of HN could collaborate and write a search engine right here on the spot. By everyone contributing 5 lines :)
Is perfectly reasonable conversation.
The simplest and the best way to get xp is to get hands dirty