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Ask HN: What should you do an year or two before starting up?
As someone who started his first tech job and is interested in starting up eventually. What should I be doing in the next two years to be better prepared for when I start up?
To phrase it differently, how should I be spending the next two years to be in a better situation to start up.
- nostrademons 9y ago1. Save money. 2. Get comfortable talking to strangers. 3. Make friends with people with complementary skillsets. 4. Learn all the tools associated with software development - git/GitHub, an IDE or editor, basic UNIX commands, curl/scp/ssh, some form of bugtracker (could be as simple as GitHub Issues or Google Sheets). 5. Learn a modern, open-source tech stack that you can use out of the box without the benefit of your employer.