> Are all startups at my age generally side hustles that become profitable enough to quit my day job? They’re either side hustles that succeed enough to go ful

> Are all startups at my age generally side hustles that become profitable enough to quit my day job? They’re either side hustles that succeed enough to go full time, or they’re fully VC-funded so that you don’t have worry about paying the bills while you build it (VCs are explicit about that, they want their founders to pay themselves well enough to focus 110% on the startup and not on niggling distractions like bills and chores and whatnot). There was a data point floating around a while back showing that most successful startups are actually done by people 40+ yrs old. They have connections in their industry and beyond, and deep domain expertise and knowledge of the problem they’re trying to solve, which gives them an edge. They’re just not in the news as much. Don’t recall where I saw it though, maybe here, maybe google. You could start networking on Angel List (https://www.angellist.com/ https://www.angellist.com/) and see what feedback you get on your idea. If you can build a very basic prototype that would help too.