Thanks for your response. Most likely I don't want to start out too early with a large team. But I can only get so far as a team of one. I at least need a co-f

Thanks for your response. Most likely I don't want to start out too early with a large team. But I can only get so far as a team of one. I at least need a co-founder and would like to know how to handle a relationship with one and what kind of agreements we should have about money and decision making. I worked with a designer on a small side project, a few months into it we had a disagreement. I wanted to pay a fair price more more work, but the designer wanted control over the direction of the project instead. Ultimately, the designer asked me not to use their work, and I ended up redesigning the whole thing from scratch. Barely salvaged the personal relationship from that. I want to get better at making agreements with other people and potentially building a small team when the time is right. > Do you really need initial funding? I at least need a plan for paying my bills until I start making money from something. Not to mention getting help with things I'm not good at, like design, marketing, etc. With only enough money to pay my basic bills for a year, the amount of time and money I can invest into a project would be limited. If I'm investing my own time and money into starting something, I'd have about 6 months, maximum, before I'd need to start looking for a day job again. This is just my thinking about it. I welcome any pushback or different perspectives. Edit: whoa, while I was writing this comment you added quite a bit to yours. :) The concrete steps are helpful. I can focus on the first 5 for now.