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Re: Ask HN: What keeps you from beginning your Start Up?

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As someone who makes fun of folks who say "{place} is just as good for startups as SV", I want to point out that you don't have to move to a startup hub to do a startup. There are advantages to doing a startup where you are. If/when you move, it will take you a while to learn as much as you currently know about the resources where you are now. In addition, you can start now instead of waiting.

There's just no way to rise funds here :( My plan is to program some big stuff myself, so as to learn about design; read the code of some open source software, to learn how others design; and program something from scratch with someone else and submit patches to an OS software, to learn how to work with other hackers. I hope that teaches me what I need.

(1) Don't do a startup that requires raising funds. (2) You probably can't raise funds in SV either.

While there are many things that are easier to build in SV, there are things that are easier to build elsewhere.

More to the point, people who build things in SV could almost certainly build things other places, they'd just build different things. If you can't build anything where you are, is it really reasonable to think that you could build something in SV?

Re: Ask HN: What keeps you from beginning your Start Up?

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I'm slow to develop mine for the worst reason in the world: I can't program. Oh, don't get me wrong. I have a coder's mind. I'm content with sitting down for hours and nitpicking code until it works just fine. It's just that I don't know the languages I need to know, and so development happens slowly. It's happening, don't get me wrong. But if I could actually program, this thing would be out in a week, rather than a…

I'm wondering if you have the same issue I do, the day job is pulling more of your programming bandwidth than you think it is. In my case I'm dealing with a virtual river of shit, and when I get home, I don't want to touch the computer at all. And when I do make time for programming, it's very hard to get into flow because it's usually 'sandwich time' stuck between other responsibilities.

I've got something similar. I'm in college, just started, and there's a prevalent feeling that spending hours in your room not being social is a bad thing. When I DO get in front of the computer, it's harder to push forward.

Progress is happening, though, so I'm optimistic.

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