I think that first, you should always consider an escape route, no matter what you are doing. First of all, I do not believe a lot in the "startup game", so my

I think that first, you should always consider an escape route, no matter what you are doing. First of all, I do not believe a lot in the "startup game", so my advice is to read some books before doing something: Rework is a good start. It forge you an opinion on how to run a tech company, productivity stuff, scaling, ... Next, I suppose that you are a high school student, so you're going to have your bachelor this year. I have to say: Do not favor your company / projects more than your studies. These are your escape route, and an escape route should be fail-proof as much as you can. Get as much degree as you can, while you can try to make your side-projects and ideas better, to adjust them, to test them. The whole idea is to invest the minimal time in your idea while building your escape route. Now, why what I say makes sense? I guess that you have certainly a tremendous potential, you must be a self-taught developer who started since 10 ~ 12 years old to play with a computer. So, in fact, I went through that too, and I wanted to launch my startup ASAP, to throw everything. But some people around me helped me a lot to understand that if it fails, you're completely fucked. And my guess is that for a 17y founder it is a lot worse than a 27y founder. Keep doing what you love, it is hard to wait, I definitely feel the urge to go ahead and do something that you hope will matter. But, just wait, and keep refining, it will definitely give birth to a better product, better ideas and others things. I just wanted to share my view, as I hope to understand what you see. If you want to talk more about my experience, drop me a line at masterancpp at gmail dot com I would love to learn more about your experience, what you want to do, what you have done, and where you want to go with all of that.