1) Get yourself in trouble by opening up to good friends about your ideas and dreams. 2) See them get on your case and nag you to death until you implement and

1) Get yourself in trouble by opening up to good friends about your ideas and dreams. 2) See them get on your case and nag you to death until you implement and carry out said ideas and dreams. If it wasn't for others, I would have "gotten off" on short emails or perhaps the occasional prototype code for my own amusement. It's them who demand more from me: "Dude, can you make us that thing we talked about?", etc. Even my current startup, the life line comes from a good friend of mine who is bugging me for a license after he saw a 4 page prototype. Friends, specially those in procurement/acquisition/hiring positions will demand you polish your prototypes, write documentation, launch a site and do everything they need to cover their ass before their superiors. Before you know it you have a little something something going on.