I feel the time is right to launch the music startup I have been thinking about for the last year. I'm torn between jumping into it and going to work at another company to really sharpen up my development skills. I'm coming out of the program as a still fresh, very jr dev. No savings, but ready to start a company otherwise. What do you recommend?
You can do both. I learned to program WHILE starting my first company. It was great, provided a needed output of the things I learned and made me a better student/developer for it.
Everyone talks about starting a company, and going all in (I use to be that guy) but when I took an honest look at my career path, many of the "projects" that became companies were started while I was doing something else. Clarity was built nights / weekends while I "vested in peace" after my company was acquired.
Spheric Technologies was started while I was working for a big company as a consultant.
Flowtown was part time for the first few months as I didn't know if I wanted to do that full-time, or move to China.
There's 16 hours (maybe more depending on your age) to create .. a job only takes 8. You have 8 more.
MANY companies have started this way ... either as a service company doing consulting, and a product was spun out (27 Signals, Freshbooks, Hootsuite, Shopify, etc) or done nights and weekends while working at a startup.
So yeah, you can do both if you have the energy and work habits.
my2cents.
Answered 10 years ago
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