I want to get into startups, but I don’t know where to start

Post by testrun » Thu, Mar 06, 2014, 11:40 AM UTC

angersock wrote: post #58

rubiquity wrote: post #51

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> I know whether you roll things from scratch or make little changes to other people's projects I'm curious as to what your thoughts are on the difference between these two things. Rolling from scratch seems like more work, but sometimes gathering enough knowledge and understanding about someone else's project to be able to make a change to it is even more work.

So, it all depends, right? If you have little commits that just change some config settings in your fork of a common jQuery library, that's not a big deal. If you have little commits that change some deep magic in sizzler, okay, that's something we should talk about. If you rewrite a software rasterizer, just for funsies, that's something to talk about. If you write yet another web framework in Ruby, or lightbox plug…

Post by sayemm » Thu, Mar 06, 2014, 8:31 PM UTC

swainner wrote: post #79

sayemm wrote: post #48

I've been working on startups more or less for most of my 20s (both as a founder and an employee at a venture-backed startup), I've learned a great deal from it, lost a lot from it and endured a lot of hardship, but I think the journey also transformed me and cut me out of wood ( http://max.levch.in/post/36289276742/strengthen-your-startup... ). So no regrets, I'm really excited about the future and I'm thinking long…

I'll throw my hat in the ring. I started an eCommerce enterprise SaaS focused business in high school as a hobby, sold it for $4M at age 21, bought it back for $32k, built it again into a $6M/year revenue (profitable) business, and sold it again in 2012 to Answers.com. All of this was 100% bootstrapped with revenue, no debt, no outside funding. In neither case, round one or round two, did I self-fund it, other than t…