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> What was it like to quit your job and focus on your successful startup? 1. Time became my most valuable asset. Everything was filtered through the lens of "d
by welanes 9y ago
> What was it like to quit your job and focus on your successful startup?
1. Time became my most valuable asset. Everything was filtered through the lens of "does this save me time?" and so I optimized everything: The gym (worked out at home), shopping (got delivered), dating (used fleshl...joking! :).
In the words of Joel Spolsky, "Every day that we spent not improving our products was a wasted day".
2. I worked harder than ever before. My job was tough but output ebbed and flowed with meetings, management, plus the usual office time wasters. The startup workday is more straightforward: wake up, coffee, write code, listen to users, coffee, learn how to add value to the market, coffee.
3. Every two months or so I look back and shake my head at how lame the product was, how little I knew, and how inefficient my workflow was. Which is to say, I continue to learn at an incredible clip yet realize I still don't know a thing. I expect this trend to continue - if it doesn't, I'm not growing.
So, yeah, overall it's been An Incredible Journey™. My only regret is that I didn't start sooner.
It's actually a gift how easy it is to go from idea to product to business. To paraphrase Murakami, 'If you're young and talented (or can code), it's like you have wings'.
We're living in the best of times.
- geetfun 9y agoEcho the same thoughts myself. Like they say, the best time to start a startup was in 2014. The second best time is now. For me, there was also some fear as the revenue was quite new. Although it was significant, the thought has never and still hasn't left my mind that one day it could be gone. It's also made me quite conservative in how I use the cash flow to grow the company. I'm not of the camp where I pour every dollar back into the company but rather I should take it out and invest in other things.
- tixocloud 9y agoThanks for the great story. If you don't mind me asking, how did you come up with the idea and did you validate it before moving forward? I've always had some ideas but haven't been able to gain traction. Eventually, I see other companies started to do well with almost the same idea so I'm a bit bummed.
- berzerk5 9y agoWhat process did you use to validate your idea? That's where I'm stuck. I have tons of ideas but I don't want to spend months and months working on something that people don't need or care about because as they say "cashflow is the lifeblood of a business".
- acuozzo 9y agoI'm currently facing this problem as well.
- HeyLaughingBoy 9y agoBuild something that people are already paying for.
- welanes 9y agoHey, excuse the late reply on this. Someone answered for me though: "Build something that people are already paying for". In the world of software, there's almost always room for better so I'd change that slightly to "build a better version of something that people are already paying for". You can find out what 'better' means by studying the product that people are already paying for, seeing what those people complain about, and resolving those complaints. That's a good place to start.
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- OverThere 9y ago> dating (used fleshl...joking!) Lol