Founders

I’m contemplating leaving a cushy W2 job to take a serious run at something I’ve been envisioning for a decade, and is now technologically possible. 

Convince me not to.

Building something new. 🟪 Host: /venturecapital /adventures /theitinerant

only reason not to, is if you dont have 12+ months expenses of cash on hand

have a good amount of cash runway and make sure you dont have many responsibilities (like kids)

building reel.farm and farcasterstudio.com

Married with two kids under 5. 

If you know anyone who’s done it under those circumstances, tag them. :)

I am. 3 year old and 1 year old :)

If there’s a way to start while still working your job that could be best. I didn’t do that. But takes off the risk.

Building getinboxzero.com and sharemint.xyz.

I also run a YouTube channel, "Learn from Open Source": youtube.com/elie2222 

It’s harder than it used to be a few years back. I work way fewer hours per day than I used to.

I don’t have any specific advice there.

Happy to chat on DM. What id be thinking through is what steps you need to take to get the business off the ground. You can likely get ball rolling while working full time.

If your next steps are:
Find cofounder 
Develop MVP
Raise funding 

How much of that can you put into motion while still at your job?

I think Nike founder wasn’t full time for like the first 9 years or something crazy like that. And Warby Parker founders also did it for 6 months while working jobs before it was big enough for them to leave.

Any tips on managing founder life and being a parent?