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Re: To start a billion dollar startup, start looking for problems

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my problem is the whole development lifecyle, there's no "code n run" anymore, when you have to continually deploy and test.

So build your own things and do it your own way. I find that is what works best for me. Put food on the table through contracting, build my own things around the contracts to provide recurring revenue. Keep going till it's enough. I hated everything about office culture and have never been happier. Right now for me that's about 20-30hrs per week freelance to make a great income, and I spend 20-30hrs per week working…

So, this is something that I would really like to do, mind answering some questions :D?

When you say "freelance" are you contracting 'on location', or 'remote'?

On location, I can't seem to find anything that isn't basically a 40+ hour gig, negating the benefit of 'freelancing', and remote seems to be highly competitive/lowest common denominator.

I'm a decent developer (backend), in a decent tech city and I'm struggling to find a way to ditch my 9-5 in favour of doing my own thing.

Any resources/advice would be appreciated.

Re: To start a billion dollar startup, start looking for problems

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> Want to start a billion dollar startup? > basically what you have to do Just.. cringe. The book recommendation reminds me of this joke: https://www.amazon.com/How-Made-290-Selling-Books/dp/B073DMV...

back when there were magazines for starting businesses there would always be this full page ad talking about how to make millions from this secret report. Except the report would tell you to run ads selling reports.

Re: To start a billion dollar startup, start looking for problems

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> Want to start a billion dollar startup? > basically what you have to do Just.. cringe. The book recommendation reminds me of this joke: https://www.amazon.com/How-Made-290-Selling-Books/dp/B073DMV...

As an aside... For those not in the know, the "author" of said book is a member of funk group Vulfpeck, which I highly recommend listening to.

Re: To start a billion dollar startup, start looking for problems

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That's the problem, haha :P

We all got a big bunch of ideas and probably not 1% of them make any money. I mean just look at Twitter ;)

The problem are finding people who...

...think I can help them, so they talk to me in the first place

...have problems I can solve

...can formulate their problem

...don't want to own the solution and sell it on their own

Re: To start a billion dollar startup, start looking for problems

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What you really want to find are the 25 million dollar problems that you can turn into a monopoly. Sure you won't ever be famous, but you will have a great lifestyle that is 99% of what a billionaire has on the upside with none of the downside.

Re: To start a billion dollar startup, start looking for problems

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> Want to start a billion dollar startup? > basically what you have to do Just.. cringe. The book recommendation reminds me of this joke: https://www.amazon.com/How-Made-290-Selling-Books/dp/B073DMV...

One of my favorites: "So You Want to be a Flying Ace!" http://www.harkavagrant.com/index.php?id=206
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