-Sophomore year of college, I took the spring quarter off. What did I do with it? I spent much time and money outsourcing the creation of a social network based

-Sophomore year of college, I took the spring quarter off. What did I do with it? I spent much time and money outsourcing the creation of a social network based on iterative drawing. I was truly the "idea" entrepreneur. It failed, mostly because at the time I had no understanding of the concept of product/market fit. I also gave up on the idea prematurely, and lost steam. -Freshman year of college, I outsourced the creation of oldefriends.com, a site to help you reconnect with your old e-friends (internet buddies) .. I shoulda written it myself and shoulda launched it on HN -Senior year of college, I outsourced the creation of a multiplayer Flash clone of worms. This time, no concept of minimum viable product, and I ended up with a product nobody wanted to play. All in all, I spent ~5k learning two valuable lessons. 1. Build something people want. 2. Figure out that they want it early on, before you invest a lot of time. If you can build something that you want for yourself, that's quick validation of #1 and #2. Fortunately, I made all of that back and way more when I launched & sold a successful Facebook app in between sophomore/junior year.