Re:5 mos. development already paid for what would you do wit...
by chadkruse on Monday July 21, 2014 @04:01PM
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> If you try to build someone else's idea the passion will be hard to find.
Having been hired by a few entrepreneurs as "the business guy", and having brought on a few true technical co-founders, I've experienced this nearly every time...it's hard to find passion for someone else's idea.
That said, I'm not convinced it's a bad thing. Just something to be aware of.
Even though my technical co-founders weren't truly passionate about the space(s) we were in, they quickly got passionate about some of the technical problems we were solving. And even though I was never as passionate about the space as the domain-expert founders I was working with, I love getting ideas off the ground and in the hands of paying customers.
To further @keithwarren passion-exploration post, if money was no object, what would you spend your time doing?
That's probably the best question I ever heard from a mentor and the reason I'm in the space I'm in today (using technology to democratize philanthropy).
Having been hired by a few entrepreneurs as "the business guy", and having brought on a few true technical co-founders, I've experienced this nearly every time...it's hard to find passion for someone else's idea.
That said, I'm not convinced it's a bad thing. Just something to be aware of.
Even though my technical co-founders weren't truly passionate about the space(s) we were in, they quickly got passionate about some of the technical problems we were solving. And even though I was never as passionate about the space as the domain-expert founders I was working with, I love getting ideas off the ground and in the hands of paying customers.
To further @keithwarren passion-exploration post, if money was no object, what would you spend your time doing?
That's probably the best question I ever heard from a mentor and the reason I'm in the space I'm in today (using technology to democratize philanthropy).