I don't see how there could be anything wrong with asking around. Sure, it's all on you to solve the problem, and nobody can figure it out for you, but asking other people for advice is one of about two or three ways to work toward a solution to a problem you don't yet know how to solve, and it would be foolish not to do it.
Speaking as a technical person, what I'm interested in is your or your team's ability to excel at the things I am not good at doing, or don't enjoy doing. Mainly what I would care to see is the ability to do market and business model validation, marketing (in its many forms), sales, and fundraising. That stuff can be demonstrated with the sort of legwork discussed in this article, or (preferably) with past success in those areas.
I don't care if you know how to code, and I might even worry that you'll have learned enough to be in a Dunning-Kruger zone where I'll have to worry about you meddling.
Speaking as a technical person, what I'm interested in is your or your team's ability to excel at the things I am not good at doing, or don't enjoy doing. Mainly what I would care to see is the ability to do market and business model validation, marketing (in its many forms), sales, and fundraising. That stuff can be demonstrated with the sort of legwork discussed in this article, or (preferably) with past success in those areas.
I don't care if you know how to code, and I might even worry that you'll have learned enough to be in a Dunning-Kruger zone where I'll have to worry about you meddling.
Just my two cents!