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It sounds like bootstrapping's been really successful for you, but it sounds like it required a lot of patience. I mean, it's easy to be passionate about your b
by Harkins 18y ago
It sounds like bootstrapping's been really successful for you, but it sounds like it required a lot of patience. I mean, it's easy to be passionate about your brilliant startup idea, but about consulting?
Maybe it's just that I don't like the client management. I can see that some folks would enjoy building new things regularly, maybe trying to extract common functionality to a project, but most of my contracts have just been fairly drudging.
Anyone who's bootstrapped by consulting care to chime in?
- aditya 18y agoAgreed. You make it sound so easy, dude! :-) One of the key things you need to have if you're a startup is determination/perseverance, but the timescale is 2-4 years of building something you're really passionate about. If you're trying to build out a consulting business you need the exact same qualities, over a much longer timescale working on things you may not be remotely passionate about. I'm constantly torn between building to flip and building to flip so that your next venture can be built to last. Looks like that's what you did and it worked, thanks for the wonderful post!