You offer some really good advice, and I'm in a REALLY similar boat / life.
I wrote up something like this about 1.5 years ago. I started my company on the side, while still working a similar (top-tier consulting) gig. I hedged my bets a bit more by running the shop while I still had a full-time [salary] and built out my dev team as full-timers first. As of 1.5 months ago, 3 more of us are full-time and in beautiful San Francisco trying to grow the collective into something real. 7 full time, and 10+ in the collective.
The problem with both of our writings to the world about doing this, is that it's not actionable. It's motivational and awesome, but there's not much of an action item. If you can't do it in a single pomodoro, most people won't do it :)
We're both young, without a family tie-down, and ironically both Russian-born? men.
@OP:
Team up for a blog post next week so that we can put together some actionable steps towards giving up the life of a cog and working for yourself on actually building something awesome?
I wrote up something like this about 1.5 years ago. I started my company on the side, while still working a similar (top-tier consulting) gig. I hedged my bets a bit more by running the shop while I still had a full-time [salary] and built out my dev team as full-timers first. As of 1.5 months ago, 3 more of us are full-time and in beautiful San Francisco trying to grow the collective into something real. 7 full time, and 10+ in the collective.
The problem with both of our writings to the world about doing this, is that it's not actionable. It's motivational and awesome, but there's not much of an action item. If you can't do it in a single pomodoro, most people won't do it :)
We're both young, without a family tie-down, and ironically both Russian-born? men.
@OP: Team up for a blog post next week so that we can put together some actionable steps towards giving up the life of a cog and working for yourself on actually building something awesome?
vlad (at) DarwinApps.com if you're interested.