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now i feel like i have the best possible situation.
I feel that THIS summer will be THE summer that I turn one of my projects into a startup, so in the past month, I've quit full time work and moved into a cheaper place to live. I'm currently doing requirements gathering for my first project, and I've already done around 400 lines of coding. I wish I wasn't alone.
You are not alone. ;)
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You are not alone. ;)
Guys, I think he is talking about a different kind of alone. Do not worry man, good things happen to those who wait.
I got burned last summer by bringing people on board too early. I'm the hacker-type.
The other people were the kind whose strengths too were different from mine. One was a high-powered client-interfacing guy, who has since taken a full time job as an IA, after the failure of his own Web 2.0 startup (all in under a year!). The other, and the troublemaker, was a high-powered marketing person who wanted to fasttrack the branding campaign before I even had a product or clients. We'd all worked together well in the context of a larger company, but we couldn't reconcile our directional aspirations for a startup.
So this year, I'm alone. In Northern Virginia's technology corridor. I would love a hackerly co-founder, or at least someone to bounce my ideas off of. All my friends from CS classes keep moving to the West coast to work for the Googles and Microsofts of the world. I have a feeling my YC application this year is going to be rejected simply because I'm a sole founder.
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Guys, I think he is talking about a different kind of alone. Do not worry man, good things happen to those who wait.
Yeah, a different, more literal kind of alone. I got burned last summer by bringing people on board too early. I'm the hacker-type. The other people were the kind whose strengths too were different from mine. One was a high-powered client-interfacing guy, who has since taken a full time job as an IA, after the failure of his own Web 2.0 startup (all in under a year!). The other, and the troublemaker, was a high-power…
The application certainly makes it seem that this is the case.
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Yeah, a different, more literal kind of alone. I got burned last summer by bringing people on board too early. I'm the hacker-type. The other people were the kind whose strengths too were different from mine. One was a high-powered client-interfacing guy, who has since taken a full time job as an IA, after the failure of his own Web 2.0 startup (all in under a year!). The other, and the troublemaker, was a high-power…
> rejected simply because I'm a sole founder. The application certainly makes it seem that this is the case.
I've found that I really enjoy my job, so my outside projects have started to shift from "this might make me money someday" to "this is really fun to code!" things. It's weird how stability (and yes, coming from consulting and startuppery, this lion freely recognizes his gilded cage) and lack of where-is-my-next-paycheck-coming-from frees the mind to coding pure-fun stuff.
However looking at what I really want to achieve I have decided that a startup is the way to go for me. Exit planned for September. Unfortunately it's not something I could run concurrently with a full time job, or else I might launch earlier to reduce risk :)
To answer the original question: Specs, use cases and UI mock-ups were 12 hours a week for 3 months. I wrote the first prototype this weekend (60 hours), so now I will be doing increments towards a stable production version, planned 12 hours per week.
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Guys, I think he is talking about a different kind of alone. Do not worry man, good things happen to those who wait.
Yeah, a different, more literal kind of alone. I got burned last summer by bringing people on board too early. I'm the hacker-type. The other people were the kind whose strengths too were different from mine. One was a high-powered client-interfacing guy, who has since taken a full time job as an IA, after the failure of his own Web 2.0 startup (all in under a year!). The other, and the troublemaker, was a high-power…
It could be fairly interesting to see if a couple of technical people, working on different products, could act as one company. Both parties get the benefits of having someone to look over their shoulder (as they have a financial stake). You also get the sum of both sets of secondary skills and contacts. The downside would be a split in focus, but that should be no worse than the two working individually.
Hopefully something will come of this summer.
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Yeah, a different, more literal kind of alone. I got burned last summer by bringing people on board too early. I'm the hacker-type. The other people were the kind whose strengths too were different from mine. One was a high-powered client-interfacing guy, who has since taken a full time job as an IA, after the failure of his own Web 2.0 startup (all in under a year!). The other, and the troublemaker, was a high-power…
I'm also a sole founder. I don't feel _that_ disadvantaged because I have a mixed business/tech background, but in terms of applying to YC it's clear that being on your own is a major mark down. It could be fairly interesting to see if a couple of technical people, working on different products, could act as one company. Both parties get the benefits of having someone to look over their shoulder (as they have a finan…
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Yeah, a different, more literal kind of alone. I got burned last summer by bringing people on board too early. I'm the hacker-type. The other people were the kind whose strengths too were different from mine. One was a high-powered client-interfacing guy, who has since taken a full time job as an IA, after the failure of his own Web 2.0 startup (all in under a year!). The other, and the troublemaker, was a high-power…
I'm also a sole founder. I don't feel _that_ disadvantaged because I have a mixed business/tech background, but in terms of applying to YC it's clear that being on your own is a major mark down. It could be fairly interesting to see if a couple of technical people, working on different products, could act as one company. Both parties get the benefits of having someone to look over their shoulder (as they have a finan…
Kind of a more-intensive, tech version of the Tuesday Night Music Club.
First rule: no bringing your girlfriend, even if she is Sheryl Crow.