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Do you have enough experience to do a startup? Really the only way to find out is to actually go do it yourself. See, you're thinking about it the wrong way, b
by antics 16y ago
Do you have enough experience to do a startup?
Really the only way to find out is to actually go do it yourself. See, you're thinking about it the wrong way, because skills are not a function of time, necessarily. In my opinion, tenacity and drive matter a lot more. You could start by building a project (that's what I'd do), but you could also contribute to OSS. You have all the tools, and (I assume)no compelling reason not to. Even if you don't, at the end of it all, you just might.
- dglassan 16y agoReading my original post I did make it sound like i'm looking at it the wrong way. I do work on a lot of personal projects and have learned a lot more than just by reading the books. I can actually write a decent app, I've written RSS parsers, a threaded comment system, an online ticketing system for my roomate's entrepreneurship project (no payment processing though), and right now i'm working on a CRM system. We're planning to launch the CRM system soon and market it to our specific industry and i've actually learned a lot over the time i've been coding in my free time, I just feel like I don't have the skills the be hired on as a programmer at startup. I'm leaning more towards finding a personal project that has big potential and build a prototype using my PHP skills. If it catches on I figured I could then find a more experienced programmer that could optimize the code and make it scale as the user base grows. I feel like I could use my skills as a founder and then bring in some awesome programmers to refine and enhance my app rather than getting hired as a programmer.