From Junior to Senior to Running a Bussiness
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Hi I've had over three years of experience working as DotNet programmer. Someday I will like to run my own bussiness my question is: Since I dont have any mentoring or couching in my actual job, How can I get that experience? I read and code a lot in my free time but I will like to know how to get more experience by myself. Regards
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Hi I've had over three years of experience working as DotNet programmer. Someday I will like to run my own bussiness my question is: Since I dont have any mentoring or couching in my actual job, How can I get that experience? I read and code a lot in my free time but I will like to know how to get more experience by myself. Regards
Running your own business is alot more than just coding. And I would have to say that coding is the easiest part of the business. You have websites, SEO, marketing, payments, possibly employees, etc that all have nothing or little to do with your core business. I suggest that you find a small thing that you are passionate about or something that you have a need for a solution. You can then write the solution and then try to market it. It might work, and it might not. But this way you can give it a try even with the experience that you have now. My biggest selling iPhone app took me 3 hours to write and submit to the app store. This shows that the coding is not the main thing. A friend of mine actually contracted people to do the coding for him and then he sold the apps and started making enough to quit his manager job. Give it a shot and start looking at what you are interested in. there is also a website for the business of running a software business here. Business of Software[^]
Steve Maier
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Running your own business is alot more than just coding. And I would have to say that coding is the easiest part of the business. You have websites, SEO, marketing, payments, possibly employees, etc that all have nothing or little to do with your core business. I suggest that you find a small thing that you are passionate about or something that you have a need for a solution. You can then write the solution and then try to market it. It might work, and it might not. But this way you can give it a try even with the experience that you have now. My biggest selling iPhone app took me 3 hours to write and submit to the app store. This shows that the coding is not the main thing. A friend of mine actually contracted people to do the coding for him and then he sold the apps and started making enough to quit his manager job. Give it a shot and start looking at what you are interested in. there is also a website for the business of running a software business here. Business of Software[^]
Steve Maier
Thanks Steve, I think that you are right about coding to be the easiest part of the business. The Website is very interesting Ive been reading the information. Im going to give it a shot and start looking, thanks
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Thanks Steve, I think that you are right about coding to be the easiest part of the business. The Website is very interesting Ive been reading the information. Im going to give it a shot and start looking, thanks
Good luck. I am working on my business and it does take up alot of time.
Steve Maier
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Hi I've had over three years of experience working as DotNet programmer. Someday I will like to run my own bussiness my question is: Since I dont have any mentoring or couching in my actual job, How can I get that experience? I read and code a lot in my free time but I will like to know how to get more experience by myself. Regards
The thing to avoid is to blaze ahead with a great product, since as a technical type youll likely make something that you wish you had, rather than something that the average Joe wishes they had, and you will go out of business with lack of sales since the number of people who want the neat thing you wish you had (and are willing to pay for it since they need it and cant make it themselves) is actually very low. Step 0: Figure out who you want your customer to be Step 1: Ask yourself to list what pains the customer is in without your product. Make sure you are answering a "top 3 pains of the customer" issue if your product does not answer a top three pains issue for the prospective customer your product is likely not worth developing. Step 2: Figure out bottoms up how you will get it to market, NOT top down like "the market is X big and I can capture Y percent of X", Top down never works. If you have a bottoms up plan of "tuesday I will give a copy to X, and upload it to Y, then etc etc" then you have a chance. Step 3: make a working prototype Step 4: start a C corp, make sure it owns the program, copyrights, patents, etc Step 5: show your prototype to a VC if you need lots of money - they will take 20% of your shares no matter how little or much money they give you so try to get as far ahead as possible on your own Step 6: hire a bunch of outsourced programmers to do the grunt work, you manage them and write only key code yourself, unless your project is very small Step 7: sell your corporate shares and retire young.
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Hi I've had over three years of experience working as DotNet programmer. Someday I will like to run my own bussiness my question is: Since I dont have any mentoring or couching in my actual job, How can I get that experience? I read and code a lot in my free time but I will like to know how to get more experience by myself. Regards
Since you don't have a mentor coach, but feel you need one, have you tried bringing this up your manager? Are you trying to gain experience and mentor-ship coding or running a business? If it is just coding, you can try joining some open source projects.
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