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Believing for so long that I needed someone's money to build something. After being unemployed for a little over 3 months earlier this year, I built a product
by jgalvez 16y ago
Believing for so long that I needed someone's money to build something.
After being unemployed for a little over 3 months earlier this year, I built a product on my own (instead of going for the safe job option, and taking the huge of risk of, you know, running out of food money) and managed to get it acquired by a media company here in Sao Paulo.
And that was quite possibly greatest lesson of my life.
Take risks. It pays off.
- sfphotoarts 16y agoI'm not sure this is very good advice. The people that are likely to comment here (as with product reviews) are those with unordinary experiences. Yours was positive and I am glad for you, however, for every good experience like this I suspect there are many that regret such actions.
- jgalvez 16y agoI think you have to measure things with care. I always thought that if worse came to worst, I could always still get a shitty PHP coding job. Things are never as bad as they appear to be. I think the message is to get over the irrational fear of unemployment, and the nonsensical notion that web apps are expensive to keep running. They're not. You need a domain name and a cheap server box. If you already have a laptop, there's even free wifi everywhere. If you think about that for a second, you realize it's a wonder there aren't /more/ startups booming everywhere than there are today.