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I'm right at your starting point. Can basically build anything but committing to an idea is the sticking point. What product would you want to start with today?
Reach out if you want to start a conversation. I'm thinking maybe a Slack for people at this stage. My email address is in my profile.
I was putting off starting my SaaS idea for years (has to do with assigning code reviewers based on specific file patterns and notifying them on Slack) but the idea was much more marketable 10 years ago when I first had it. GitHub did not even have the concept of CODEOWNERS back then. After getting laid off, I decided to roll the dice instead of looking for another work-for-hire. Yeah, it's too late, but I needed thi…
> Take The Globe, for example - the Facebook before Facebook. They failed "The company's IPO made history when it posted the largest first day gain of any IPO with a 606% increase in price.[3] Early in his tenure, Paternot became known in popular media as "the CEO in the plastic pants" after he was filmed in a nightclub saying 'Got the girl. Got the money. Now I'm ready to live a disgusting, frivolous life.'" Then th…
Had an epiphany like this after an earlier startup project failed, which my cofounder and I had tried to do following the formulaic approaches advocated by various accelerators, investors, and experts (often people with zero experience running a startup, but had been involved as angels after BigCo stock options vested, and then got into mentoring local accelerators). I hated the startup theater, pitching, networking,…
Any chance you can share? I don't have a particular project I need to pay a consultant for right now, but I'd be honest: if you wrote a book, I'd buy it and put it right on the top of my reading list.
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when my senior year rolled around, I still didn't know what my major was going to be. I visited a guidance counselor, and she viewed all the classes I had inadvertently taken, and I'd fulfilled 3/4 of a History degree (a Southern History degree, no less - they offer it at my alma, Ole Miss). So I just went with that and read a few more William Faulkner novels : )
I went from an EE major to Aerospace. Realized I wasn't going to make it. At the same time the market for aerospace graduates was collapsing. But I did have enough math and programming credits to graduate with a CS degree. And dumped those aerospace credits into an Astronomy minor. Sometimes the degree picks you.
Had an epiphany like this after an earlier startup project failed, which my cofounder and I had tried to do following the formulaic approaches advocated by various accelerators, investors, and experts (often people with zero experience running a startup, but had been involved as angels after BigCo stock options vested, and then got into mentoring local accelerators). I hated the startup theater, pitching, networking,…
The career accelerator people kill me. Honestly why do I want to hear from someone who's biggest risk was getting a job talking to people taking big risks. I have a similar startup backstory to this, for my second venture I went fully to the get paid to do your work camp. It's still hard, harder than anything I've ever done, but it's working out.
Professional talking heads will always try to convince you they are needed.
The harder they're pushing, the more suspicious I am. If they were needed as much as they'd say, why would they need to persuade me so much?
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Most ER visits are not life or death situations, and most would make a 20 minute drive over a 10 minute drive if it meant saving $1k. So the incentive is still there. You can say that I'm valuing money over lives in this example, but I think we'd be picking the lesser of two evils, as it's becoming increasingly evident that socialized medicine is stacking up its own body count. Working with society is all about incen…
What non-emergencies typically bring you to the ED?
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Never say never.
For real. I made $400k+ multiple years working for myself in a business that was a mix of product and services. But then divorce, business changes, and my own values shifting pushed me to get a tech job where I made even more, working less, with less stress. It was a great move, though I had to let go of some of my ego to do it. That said, after about five years of that, I'm ready to get back to working for myself.
Frankly 90% of people probably are not cut out to be entrepreneurs because it requires certain qualities.
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On the other hand, it would make it harder for big business to retain talent.
This is why big business is not an ally for anything that makes health care cheaper or easier to engage. It's a great system for them.