Ask HN: Tips for engineer who wants to seed his own startup

Re:Ask HN: Tips for engineer who wants to seed his own startup by vaksel on Monday February 09, 2009 @06:37PM (#474390)

Personally I'm on the side of quitting everything and focusing entirely on your startup. If you don't, you'll find yourself 8 months from now and some other startup will come out with pretty much the same thing you've been working on.

And if you can't quit because of work...take a vacation. 2 weeks of working non-stop should be plenty of time to get most things up and running.

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Re:Ask HN: Tips for engineer who wants to seed his own startup by gstar on Tuesday February 10, 2009 @05:13AM (#474969)

2 weeks?

Call me a pessimist, but I think the era of getting funding and building a product with two weeks labour investment from one engineer isn't going to continue.

Quite apart from that, building the business is a much bigger concern than two weeks, there's a lot of boring business stuff that has huge lead times.

It's been done before, but it's like winning the lottery.

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Re:Ask HN: Tips for engineer who wants to seed his own startup by mark_ellul on Tuesday February 10, 2009 @07:05PM (#476225)

Interesting Point, I will be funding this myself, the 2 weeks I would use is time to get a alpha product ready! So when I am setting up rest of the business I have something to show for!

Thanks for your comment

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Re:Ask HN: Tips for engineer who wants to seed his own startup by mark_ellul on Monday February 09, 2009 @07:22PM (#474456)

Thanks Vaksel for your advice... Indeed quitting everything is not an option, but potentially taking a holiday is...

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