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Ask HN: What should you do an year or two before starting up?

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Ask HN: What should you do an year or two before starting up?

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Post by husmo »

As someone who started his first tech job and is interested in starting up eventually. What should I be doing in the next two years to be better prepared for when I start up?

To phrase it differently, how should I be spending the next two years to be in a better situation to start up.

Re: Ask HN: What should you do an year or two before starting up?

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Post by nostrademons »

1. Save money.

2. Get comfortable talking to strangers.

3. Make friends with people with complementary skillsets.

4. Learn all the tools associated with software development - git/GitHub, an IDE or editor, basic UNIX commands, curl/scp/ssh, some form of bugtracker (could be as simple as GitHub Issues or Google Sheets).

5. Learn a modern, open-source tech stack that you can use out of the box without the benefit of your employer.

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