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Took an entrepreneurship class My group didn't want to work on our project (I was the only tech person in the group) Another group recruited me to build their
by madamelic 10y ago
Took an entrepreneurship class
My group didn't want to work on our project (I was the only tech person in the group)
Another group recruited me to build theirs. I was the only tech person willing to do the work in the group. I self-taught Angular and Javascript
Attempted to get into an incubator with those people.
Failed.
Met up with another team wanting to build a startup.
Built it. Launched it. Learned Meteor and expanded JS skills
Graduated.
Got job at startup writing JS.
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tl;dr: Pretty far.
- tedmiston 10y agoIt's kind of crazy how many people go into entrepreneurship, in school and the real world, thinking they can succeed without doing a ton of work.
- madamelic 10y agoYeah, it is the reason I don't really work with people anymore on their startups anymore. Even "recruiting" a co-founder seems risky. At first, it was fun but after "co-founders" bailed on me twice because "it isn't fun anymore" (eg: what happens when you get into actually, you know, running the thing), I just stopped joining teams that didn't pay me. Everyone has an idea that they think will make them a millionaire or whatever. Either they need to pay me (money. None of this "equity-only" junk) or they need a proven track record of unstructured work and some killer skill I can't touch.