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Ask HN: Why do you want to start a business?
What are the things that motivate you?
When did you decide it was the right path for you?
What does/will having a business provide for you?
I think there is a big hype around startups and starting your own business, and I am wondering how much is influenced by social pressure, and how much by innate will.
Obviously not everyone who visits HN wants a startup, but I am asking the ones that do.
- PaulHoule 9y agoIn software you are often working in an organization where the "important" people are not software people and there is just no path for advancement.
- troydavis 9y agoFor me, it was two things: 1. I saw lots of problems that I had ideas about (ideas that I'd pay for if they existed). A business was - is - the only way to implement those improvements and discover whether they actually helped other people as much as they helped me. 2. While I enjoyed working on problems for other people, other stuff - broadly, poor execution by parts of the business I didn't oversee - got in the way. #1 led me to implement many things over the years (businesses, projects, whatever), but #2 was basically the catalyst to do it full time.