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The N% handicap - How to startup without leaving job

Avi Aryan on October 19, 2018

First posted on Dev Letters Most of us have plans to do our own business at some point in our lives, right? Let's be our own boss for once! Bu...
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Pranith Hengavalli

I think the concept of working on one thing while constantly dreaming of something else is very depressing in practice. I worry that the deferred dream is something many people will find hard to hold on to.

Further I feel like entrepreneurship is a journey that you need to learn to love completely. Accept the downs, understand the difficulties of bootstrapping, and keep working at it until you find a way to make it sustainable. Unless if you burn that bridge I think it'll always be too easy to go back.