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Interesting question, wish I had the experience you have! What exactly will you be faking in order to make it? Its hard to fake starting a company. On subject

Interesting question, wish I had the experience you have! What exactly will you be faking in order to make it? Its hard to fake starting a company. On subject: If your mind is set on architecture, scaling and operating then thats probably a strong domain to start your startup. Consider it your domain, not an incomplete puzzle. After finding motivation and possible problems to tackle you can find a team to complete the puzzle. On motivation: I wonder why you feel this urge? What makes you think there are logical steps in careers? Sure, there are paths many people take, but you probably only should when you feel you're missing something, not simply because everyone else does. Try listing problems to solve (see below) and see if there is one you would want to make time for. On ideas: I do not think you should think in ideas for side projects, think problems instead. I've seen many people never start anything because they were only looking for the unicorn idea. Metaphorically; - What tool on your Swiss army knife is most worn out? Why is that? - Probably you take a scalpel for some problems instead of a Swiss army knife, why is your scalpel better? - I personally always have the problem of not being able to get the knife out without nails, how did you solve this over the years?

throwaway7508 8y ago
Insightful answer, thanks ! What will I be faking until I make it ? Quite simply the ability to answer "yes" to the question "Hey, I'm product guy and here's designer guy. Do you want to be our dev at the local hackathon next week-end ?" There's no way I could do that before going through a couple of language + framework tutorials. Probably JS + React + ExpressJS, or Bootstrap, Vue, and Django / Flask or even Phoenix/Elixir if I want to be hip. And I'm not sure how long it might take to be ready. Probably days not months tbh. I suppose I should just do it, but so far I've lacked a really good opportunity to motivate me to take the plunge. I don't want to lie about this, and I'm introducing myself as an "engineer but not a dev" at startup meetups : because of that I know I've lost a few co-founding opportunities already. Why the urge now ? I guess because working with younger founders has suddenly reminded me that you don't need to know everything and do it all right to get to be a startup CTO. And the best way to be a startup CTO is definitely to be a co-founder : you rarely find those positions on LinkedIn.

throwaway7508 8y ago

Insightful answer, thanks ! What will I be faking until I make it ? Quite simply the ability to answer "yes" to the question "Hey, I'm product guy and here's designer guy. Do you want to be our dev at the local hackathon next week-end ?" There's no way I could do that before going through a couple of language + framework tutorials. Probably JS + React + ExpressJS, or Bootstrap, Vue, and Django / Flask or even Phoenix/Elixir if I want to be hip. And I'm not sure how long it might take to be ready. Probably days not months tbh. I suppose I should just do it, but so far I've lacked a really good opportunity to motivate me to take the plunge. I don't want to lie about this, and I'm introducing myself as an "engineer but not a dev" at startup meetups : because of that I know I've lost a few co-founding opportunities already. Why the urge now ? I guess because working with younger founders has suddenly reminded me that you don't need to know everything and do it all right to get to be a startup CTO. And the best way to be a startup CTO is definitely to be a co-founder : you rarely find those positions on LinkedIn.