Stealth_dev
Stealth_dev
Stealth

Need advice - please help 🥲

Im working as a developer in a unicorn startup with good salary for my age. But from college time I was interested in entrepreneurship trying different thing and later after completing college I joined this unicorn and worked hard, shifted to their new stealth startup and worked there with for 1yr, tried to work in every possible opportunity that I got with design team, product managers and learnt how to build a startup from scratch, but later due to creative issues in top level management and less revenue than the competitors the startup was shutdown and I was moved back to the unicorn and again started working as an developer. Tried different things from then

  1. Tried joining top B schools but couldn’t afford
  2. Tired pitching ideas to friends, seems like no one interested in taking risk leaving the life they have now
  3. Tried starting few things on my own but always end up failing with no support
  4. Tried attending conferences but that too never led me anywhere

Now don’t have as many friends interested in entrepreneurship or mentors to guide me. Just passing the days doing the same work again and again

please suggest me what to do next or give me any kind of advice

3mo ago
WordyMiscommunication
WordyMiscommunication
Stealth3mo

I think by now you would be really good at creating a product or at least identifying a problem and solving it. If so, you should try creating a micro SaaS or a micro business (doesn’t have to be only software).

Micro anything is easy to build, solves one small problem, easy to validate, launch, acquire customers and ultimately can be sold on sites like microacquire (or acquire whatever they are calling themselves today),

WordyMiscommunication
WordyMiscommunication
Stealth3mo

On the unprofessional side of the answer:

When I joined college in 2019, I had the same idea. I thought I will launch one new startup/SaaS every semester. But I only made 1 and it got used 16K times by 300 customers, but I shut it down. Eventually joining another startup telling myself that “I will work at an early stage startup and learn how things work internally and then again come back to starting something of my own”.

But I think I’m very close to the edge now of starting something of my own, but always keep telling myself that the ideas I’ve right now aren’t worth enough to leave everything (stability of a job). But I guess I’m just wrong and at this point I’m rambling nonsense.

Anyways point is, you need to start somewhere, someday, better be today, with a stupid idea and then pivot. Make friends who trust you and start something with them, it’s better when you have someone for accountability

Stealth_dev
Stealth_dev
Stealth3mo

Thak you so much for your advice @WordyMiscommunication this means a lot to me

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