thar2012
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I was in same situation around a year back. Then I thought just coding will not give me financial freedom to do whatever I want and started my own tech company. It's been a great year I had lots of new experience, learning and making money as well.
Consider creating some products in your free time preferably in your domain to start with.
Connect me tapesh at vitallabs.in if you need any specific details on how to transition from engineer to entrepreneur.
I am not offering any time & material cost model here which is typical outsourcing model. I will connect you with some really talented developers who would be equally passionate in your idea and they will not be on my company's payroll.
Posted by
thar2012 on Friday January 11, 2013 @12:27PM
from the self-post dept.
Just saw the proposition by Hmexx and it is good for people who can code. So I thought to create one for people who can not code but can sell.So deal is:
1. If you have an idea and you think you can market\sell it but find difficult to build MVP.
2. The MVP should be able to build in 2-3 months by 1-2 developer\designer.
3. You will be closely working with full time dedicated...
It all depends on what kind of startup you want to do. Some startup are capital intensive and some are not. In startup, You need money to do some activities. Find people who can do those activity and partner with them. There are also so many outsourcing avenues available to outsource activities at very low cost.
you can take some part time consulting assignments to pay your bills.
Posted by
thar2012 on Thursday December 27, 2012 @01:24PM
from the ericsink.com dept.
You should have some free trial to give customers some confidence how good is the product.
Posted by
thar2012 on Thursday June 21, 2012 @08:59AM
from the ask-hn dept.
I feel performance appraisal at big companies sucks.
Just want to learn if any body finds out to do this difficult task in better way ?
You make me remember my compiler design course. I find it most
difficult during my collage days. Thank god we didn't have SML
Posted by
thar2012 on Wednesday June 20, 2012 @06:53AM
from the ask-hn dept.
My answer is COM, whats yours ?
Matthew,
Let me know your mail id or send me email at
[email protected]. I am a developer and I will able to help you.
non-popular websites will start seeing some good traffic suddenly. It would be confusing for them :)
Posted by
thar2012 on Tuesday March 27, 2012 @02:48PM
from the ask-hn dept.
Just few week back, I have attended startup weekend and got amazed by kind of learning experience and networking opportunity it has provided. I have made some good friends and build an application in just over a weekend.
But it got some drawbacks as with other hackthons. i.e. there is no call to action after the event and the time line is much shorter to build anything serious.Since then I am...
Posted by
thar2012 on Friday March 16, 2012 @03:23PM
from the betterway.posterous.com dept.
I think this is a proactive approach rather a reactive approach, when products/service come into existence after mass uses new technology and find issues with it and market respond to that need.
Posted by
thar2012 on Friday March 09, 2012 @06:33AM
from the strategy-business.com dept.
Posted by
thar2012 on Wednesday March 07, 2012 @01:48PM
from the blog.launchbit.com dept.
I am looking for partner to apply for YC. I am a techie with
8 yrs of experience in developing software products.
if interested, shoot me an email.
I suggest first find your niche market then go for bigger market. who are your target customers i.e. first time
buyers or professionals. Each set of customers have different
kind of issues and need different way of marketing.
The most funniest part is :)
"While Zuckerberg promised that thefacebook.com would boast new features by the end of the week, he said that he did not create the website with the intention of generating revenue."