I have a question about starting a business being a highly skilled programmer.
I want to start a business, I understand that it’s different kind of work and I’ll need to re-educate myself (although I have some management experience and really enjoyed it)
Question - any recommendation you can give me? Either direct advice or maybe some article to read, a website, author, a club or anything that can help to capitalize on my skills while starting a business.
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I’m a software developer with > 15 years of work experience, I’m currently earning around 225,000$ a year working remotely and living in a low tax low prices area, but I started to dread programming, and want more human contact, diversity of things to do, decouple my income from direct investment of time and/or effort.
I bet I’m not the first in this situation and I don’t want to reinvent the wheel and make mistakes someone already did.
What I think I can use:
- I’m extremely effective at what I do, I can easily work 3-5 hours a day and everyone will think I work 8-10 hours, so I can have time and money for business
- Working in multiple different organizations I’ve learnt several absolutely unobvious niches that have demand but just one competitor who is just monopolist and charges excessive rates.
- I’m capable to deliver of such software (I’ve been first hire in multiple startups and alone build quite an impressive apps/services) for that niche and start serving people (or likely organizations - B2B)
I was thinking about two routes:
- To cooperate with someone, who is good in sales and marketing, either to do one of those niche projects or do his idea and be co-founder, a “first hire” in a startup I co-own.
- To hire someone who’s good at marketing, and try to sell the product or find clients, even if it’s not ready - just to test an idea and if/when first clients arrive - do quickly an MVP and just go from there.
But I’m not sure if those are good options.
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