How to Test Drive Your Business Idea Before Quitting Your Job

Re:How to Test Drive Your Business Idea Before Quitting Your... by lilcarlyung on Thursday September 08, 2016 @04:41PM (#12457081)

Is quitting your job for your own startup idea, when working in tech, really that big of a deal? Especially if you are a software engineer? You'll probably end up doing the same thing as on a corporate job but for yourself while learning a lot of new things about building software (marketing, sales, design, etc.) and about yourself (grit, character, etc.). You are still gaining experience. If shit hits the fan, with all digitalization going on everywhere, finding a new job won't really be that big of an issue.

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Re:How to Test Drive Your Business Idea Before Quitting Your... by stefanmancevski on Thursday September 08, 2016 @04:53PM (#12457220)

For some it is, for others it isn't. Remember that not every potential entrepreneur is in the same boat. Some are non-technical founders. Some just graduated college and are flooded with debt. Others are risk-averse.

But they all want to do something big. The test-drive concept is to go into building your new startup with data-backed reasons for why it's the right thing to do.

It helps you justify your decision to yourself and those around you. It's not just the job, but the people involved. At the end of the day, the entrepreneur is NOT the only one affected by the decision of starting a new business.

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Re:How to Test Drive Your Business Idea Before Quitting Your... by morgante on Thursday September 08, 2016 @07:22PM (#12458351)

> You'll probably end up doing the same thing as on a corporate job

Except the part where you get a paycheck.

The opportunity cost of quitting your job is thousands of dollars a week. That's a big decision to make.

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Re:How to Test Drive Your Business Idea Before Quitting Your... by bbcbasic on Friday September 09, 2016 @12:16AM (#12459593)

A week? Maybe a month :-)

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Re:How to Test Drive Your Business Idea Before Quitting Your... by morgante on Friday September 09, 2016 @12:42AM (#12459676)

Software engineers make thousands of dollars per week. Even on the lower end, $120,000/52=$2.3k/w.

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Re:How to Test Drive Your Business Idea Before Quitting Your... by bbcbasic on Friday September 09, 2016 @01:51AM (#12459889)

If US$ then that is top top end (Architect, Manager level or CTO) in Sydney.

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Re:How to Test Drive Your Business Idea Before Quitting Your... by grokys on Friday September 09, 2016 @03:34AM (#12460256)

And in most places in the world, that is basically unobtainable. A rather serious case of SV-myopia here I suspect.

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