Ask HN: Did you start a company whilst employed?

Re:Ask HN: Did you start a company whilst employed? by aymeric on Monday June 09, 2014 @06:19AM (#7867726)

I like the concept of telling personal stories instead of advices.

Thank you! (Great talk, and nice dash of humour)

And I also like the "advice" of being prolific, rather to "focus" like we hear often on Hacker News.

What has worked for me in the past (here comes a story, not an advice) is trying many personal projects until I found one that worked on many aspects (financial / personal lifestyle choices / meaning / etc...).

Having too many projects at the same time was very stressful to me, so I found that I could work on one main project and a new side project every month at the same time.

In the end, it is one of the side projects that started to work better than the others.

This week, I am going to be working full-time on it and I am happy about it :)

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Re:Ask HN: Did you start a company whilst employed? by GFuller on Monday June 09, 2014 @06:45AM (#7867786)

Thanks, I was hoping for some personal stories.

I'm at a stage where I've worked for a significant amount of time on one project outside work that hasn't really been successful. I'm now working on a few things and trying to validate the ideas with customers before building them out properly.

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Re:Ask HN: Did you start a company whilst employed? by bchjam on Monday June 09, 2014 @10:52AM (#7868723)

I love the personal stories approach as well but I've found that some people end up thinking I'm a narcissist for it. Maybe my delivery just sucks?

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