starting a social media site?

[john]

let me just admit I have no experience or am not at all well versed whatsoever in "programming" or whatever the proper term is.

I had an idea for a social media type site, but with what i know now, and what i could maybe possibly learn in the very short term, would more likely than not leave me incapable of building a website/social media interface on my own. This "idea" I had, as far as the interface/overall concept I envisioned would not be as complicated as say facebook or youtube or any social media site like that, but it still would be almost on par with that.


so my question is, If I acquired enough funds, is this something a website development company could just create for me? and i would hire the necessary programmers and staff to maintain the website, in a technical sense?



ps. are there any books you can recommend to me so i can understand how programming works?

as far as starting and running my own social media site, this is something im serious about doing, so im asking for book or general website recommendations so i can know the, proper lingo, and so i can proceed with knowing how to talk and sell my idea to someone. thanks