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Thank you for writing this. People like you inspire me a lot ! I am struggling internally whether I should quit the job and start working on my idea. I still h

Thank you for writing this. People like you inspire me a lot ! I am struggling internally whether I should quit the job and start working on my idea. I still haven't quit. My background appear to be similar what you described. No HBS/GSB/MIT/YALE/PRINCETON ; no upper middle class family but on positive side I do have engineering degree and one thing I like most is research -->link -->build. I've quite good analytical ability. I hope I will get chance to create great product. One question if you don't mind , are you working full time on your startup idea ? Also , you mentioned prior product on which you spent 2 years didn't make. Were you working full time on your idea then ? How did you support yourself ?

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I am working full-time on my new thing. I had to take August off to take care of my firstborn. Then he had an ER visit followed by emergency surgery a few days ago. Now I'm about to dive back into the code. Trust me when I say that startups are not scary compared with your 3 week old baby going into lifesaving surgery :-) (He's recovering well. Fingers crossed.) I lived off a meager savings for my previous startup initially and raised angel money from a rich guy that I worked for in the past. It was me and my buddy in a room for 2 years. We had some success but not enough, so I had to go back to a high paying corporate job for a while. Big lessons were learned the hard way. At least: #5 and #8 and #10 and #11 and #12 and #14 http://www.paulgraham.com/startupmistakes.html http://www.paulgraham.com/startupmistakes.html But the big missing one there is: Not Having Guidance. It's very difficult to see you're making a fundamental mistake yourself. You really need outside expertise.
- sunonmars 12y ago
  Thanks again. Congratulations on arrival of your newbornbaby and hope he recovers soon. Good luck with your start-up.

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I am working full-time on my new thing. I had to take August off to take care of my firstborn. Then he had an ER visit followed by emergency surgery a few days ago. Now I'm about to dive back into the code. Trust me when I say that startups are not scary compared with your 3 week old baby going into lifesaving surgery :-) (He's recovering well. Fingers crossed.) I lived off a meager savings for my previous startup initially and raised angel money from a rich guy that I worked for in the past. It was me and my buddy in a room for 2 years. We had some success but not enough, so I had to go back to a high paying corporate job for a while. Big lessons were learned the hard way. At least: #5 and #8 and #10 and #11 and #12 and #14 http://www.paulgraham.com/startupmistakes.html http://www.paulgraham.com/startupmistakes.html But the big missing one there is: Not Having Guidance. It's very difficult to see you're making a fundamental mistake yourself. You really need outside expertise.

sunonmars 12y ago
Thanks again. Congratulations on arrival of your newbornbaby and hope he recovers soon. Good luck with your start-up.