dynabros

As a founder, how do you deal with things you know you aren't great at? For example something which needs to be done, but you yourself can do it mediocre at best - there's no money to hire someone to make it great for you.

Do you try and work on it for hours or days hoping to sharpen your skills and attain a better version, or do you give it your best shot on the first try and move on to the next thing?

I'm worried about spending too much time on something that's futile, but I'm also worried about having something that doesn't look great representing my company.

Have you had any issues with freelance for hire sites, or the clients using them?

If you could make the current solutions better, what would you do to change them?

I'm always asked to develop apps for equity - no pay. Has anyone taken this route before? Did you find it was worthwhile? What was your experience?

For development of an MVP, does it matter if you don't use a super-star engineer? Would going on odesk for cheap labor suffice?

Does it matter if you use a cheaper programming language? Like going for PHP over ruby?

What kind of pitfalls could you encounter? A great engineer for beta development is essential, but to get something in front of your investors.. does it really matter?