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I want you to erase the notion of "missed opportunities". Re wind the clock a scant 16 years. Linux was barely a thing, you were buying servers from sun, putti
by zer00eyz 11y ago
I want you to erase the notion of "missed opportunities".
Re wind the clock a scant 16 years. Linux was barely a thing, you were buying servers from sun, putting them in a cage to "start up". There wasn't really a way to be technical and be "ramen profitable".
Look at the environment now. You can start up a SaS business with the skills you have acquired, and probably what you spend a month on coffee from Starbucks, or a few lunches out.
Just build something, then go build something else, keep building things till one of them starts to get traction, and then iterate on that... wash rinse repeat. Will you get rich? who knows? But the more arrows you shoot, the more likely you are to hit a target.
It has never been easier to just do something than it is today.
- cylinder 11y agoAs an entrepreneur, all I hear from that is "less barriers to entry," which is what I don't want. Frankly, it was easier back then for someone with only light technically skills such as myself. The web was a lot less crowded, I could get attention for new projects so easily. E-commerce was a breeze. The internet in general is becoming less of a frontier, so yes highly specialized folks have more opportunities but not primary industry guys. Also, the flood of VC into ridiculous startups has distorted the playing field.