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I think your comment is most on point here. I understand the original poster's need to find validation but the reality is the forces that decide whether you ca
by TomOfTTB 17y ago
I think your comment is most on point here. I understand the original poster's need to find validation but the reality is the forces that decide whether you can be a successful tech entrepreneur aren't external. It's the Internet for God's sake you can be 15 or 115 and people probably won't even know. Those who will know probably don't care (there have been YCom. startups by people in their 30s)
The question's that matter are internal. Do you still have it in you? The one advantage youth has is energy. Can you work the 7-9 schedule? Can you make it through the 84 hour weeks? Are you passionate enough about your idea to do that?
That's what matters. The rest is just navel gazing imho
- rimantas 17y agoObligatory link to http://37signals.com/svn/posts/1078-it-doesnt-have-to-be-all-or-nothing-with-a-startup http://37signals.com/svn/posts/1078-it-doesnt-have-to-be-all... We’ve repeated this story so many times that it’s starting to wear a little thin, but here it goes again: Basecamp was created wit 10 hours/week of programming time and as a 3rd or 4th project alongside paying customers for the designers over the course of about 6 months. In other words, we didn’t drop everything we had to create Basecamp, and you don’t have to either.
- BigCanOfTuna 17y agoSorry dude, not looking for validation. Just looking for stories of people not in their twenties, and becoming a success.