My Journey Starts Here
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My Journey Starts Here
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#2Looking forward to seeing what comes of this. Somewhat refreshing to see you opting for an alternative approach to trying to take over the world with the "next big thing". I wish you luck; onwards and upwards.
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#3Mate, good luck. First priority is income - if you would like some freelance iOS dev, email me your details and I will ask around.
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#4Good luck! Look forward to hearing your story! I understand the lure of temptations of making "the next big thing" and have been at critical crossroads many times before. I feel if things happened a little different I would have found myself in a situation similar to yours so I wish you all the best in your adventure.
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#5A bootstrapped business takes time to generate anything approaching a minimum livable income. I'd suggest doing a couple of freelance projects first to keep the wolf from the door, and then return to your business ideas.
You can't bootstrap without bootstraps...
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Thank you very much for your great comment.
My first objective is indeed to find some clients. I'm reading some books on it and I read the same advice you summed in your first two points.
How do you manage 4 clients at a time? Did you agree to work on the projects part time or you are working longer hours to cover them?
I'll try the other options you mentioned. Thanks a lot for the tips.
EDIT: I wonder why the parent comment has been deleted. It was a very valuable one.
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#8A bootstrapped business takes time to generate anything approaching a minimum livable income. I'd suggest doing a couple of freelance projects first to keep the wolf from the door, and then return to your business ideas. You can't bootstrap without bootstraps...
My plan is indeed to get some clients first. I'll write about that soon.
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#9I know how you feel. I am in the same situation. Sorta. Good clients are hard to come by and I am running out of them.
But I am not sure if I want to join someone elses startup or do my own. I'm not much of an entrepreneur as I am a hacker. But the problem with most other companies is that they are not run like the way I would want to run them. Which brings me back to the point where I might just be happy running my own show. But again, I'm no entrepreneur.
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#10A bootstrapped business takes time to generate anything approaching a minimum livable income. I'd suggest doing a couple of freelance projects first to keep the wolf from the door, and then return to your business ideas. You can't bootstrap without bootstraps...
My plan is indeed to get some clients first. I'll write about that soon.
Post some examples of your work/github, I'm sure there are plenty of people here looking for IOS skills.