Ask YC: How to start becoming an entrepreneur while still being an employee
This short piece from the NYTimes (below) piqued my interest. It offers some advice on how to act like an entrepreneur as an employee. If you are not a burn-your-boat-on-the-shore type of person, how do you go about making the transition to full-time entrepreneur. Is it abrupt or gradual. I'm guessing gradual. As I make the transition, I'm working on building some web applications that I would find of use (language learning, memorization) How many of you look at creating your own startup as a hobby, rather than a business, or as both? What steps (most notably - to expand your comfort zone) do you recommend.? I've heard some crazy advice like lie down in a Starbucks for 10 seconds to desensitize yourself to what you think other people think. I'm thinking seriously of taking a break from my career to learn Spanish in a Latin American country. [http://tinyurl.com/2k2jdf] "First, act more li
Why it failed
This short piece from the NYTimes (below) piqued my interest. It offers some advice on how to act like an entrepreneur as an employee. If you are not a burn-your-boat-on-the-shore type of person, how do you go about making the transition to full-time entrepreneur. Is it abrupt or
- Kind
- startup
- Status
- Shut down
- Inventor
- wallflower
- Ended
- 2008
- Source
- hackernews