A HireVoice postmortem - lessons learned trying to get a startup off the ground(etiennegarbugli.com) |
A HireVoice postmortem - lessons learned trying to get a startup off the ground(etiennegarbugli.com) |
I think bootstrapping a startup when you have no capital is incredibly hard. The age you are and whether you're renting or not are merely contributory factors - imagine if you were paying a mortgage rather than rent...this could make bootstrapping even harder (could being the important word here, before someone corrects me!).
(maybe this is a controversial viewpoint, but I feel Twitter is for 140 character insights, and a blog post is for longer ones. Having 24 quote blocks with 'Tweet This' next to it didn't make for a great reading experience)
You can look at it as "oh it's so hard, i've got a mortgage!". Or you can look at it as "Wow, I've got some really good experience in industry X, skills to sell, and established roots in industry X and my local/regional area to help me get moving faster!".
There's a few entrepreneurs/startups in our area that I really respect, and most of them started over 30. One was closer to 40 before he started, and wasn't really rocking it until 40 or just a bit after I think.
Living at home with your parents, no rent/food to pay would still be hard if you didn't have enough money for a computer and net connection (assuming you're trying to work online). Having capital relative to your startup needs is key - age is immaterial.
If you look at the author's LinkedIn, you'll see he started another consulting job after four months working on HireVoice full time. Is this because he realized the initial idea wasn't going to pay the bills?
I wonder if he would have been better off getting a full-time job first and iterating on this idea as a side project? It seems like someone who is fully employed would be more rigorous in choosing which idea to spend their precious spare time on.
1. People
2. Like
3. ListsWhy do you say that?