Here's what I've learned when I quit and tried to start my own thing. A regular paycheck is "nice", it's a safety blanket. But it also keeps you down. You ca

Here's what I've learned when I quit and tried to start my own thing. A regular paycheck is "nice", it's a safety blanket. But it also keeps you down. You can live nicely on a regular paycheck, but if you want "something more", whether that "more" is money, or "meaning", you have to give it up and go into the real world. You have to take a risk. I didn't really Succeed, but I gained new experience, a bunch of contacts, and learned what I needed. The next time I do it, I'm going to have a better chance of succeeding in it, i'm certain of it. A business model is more than a product, and a way to charge for it. It's having partners, channels, product, and yes some resources. If you're a dev who's planning on quitting, and then spending 18 hours a day coding, you're probably going to fail. If you quit and spend 100% of your time networking, you're going to fail. But if you have a plan for how to get the product built, how to market it, and you have a quantifiable reason to believe people want it. You might just make it. I think it takes a few failures to get there.