> building something of my own What prevents you from doing this right now? At nights and/or on weekends, building your own thing(s)? IP assignment agreement

> building something of my own What prevents you from doing this right now? At nights and/or on weekends, building your own thing(s)? IP assignment agreement? Lack of time or energy? My suggestion would be to start now. Start programming things. Most of the Y-Combinator advice seems to be to let the project dictate making a startup as opposed to starting a startup because you want to start a startup. Also, keeping in mind your IP assignment agreements at work, go to your accountant and open up an S-corp or LLC. If you are very ambitious and want to get angel funding etc., start a Delaware corporation - there is plenty of advice here how to do so. I myself have an S-corp in my state, because I am not working on anything at the moment that I foresee eventually trying to raise venture capital for. Again, keeping your IP assignments in mind - why not launch while still working? Work your day job during the day and do the side gig at night.