I'm always interested in entrepreneurship, but the thought of failure (not having enough money to feed my dog 😭) and not knowing where to start have always given me pause. What advice would you have for someone looking to start a business of their own?
Also, If you weren't the CEO of Codeship, what do you think you'd be doing now (and where)? :D
It's hard; I won't lie. The first half of our journey, I didn't make any $ of Codeship. I have a tremendous amount of respect for every founder who believes in a crazy idea and jumps right into it.
I think it depends on your situation. We didn't do Codeship full-time until we acquired our first couple of customers. We hedged our risk a bit. Once it was more obvious that what we do can be "real, " and other people are willing to pay for it, we went all-in. Maybe you could do the same? Maybe there are some ways how you could validate your idea on the side, make some progress to de-risk everything?
I don't know what would have happened if I wouldn't have started Codeship. Honestly, no idea (maybe I'm not creative enough). I hope something else that's pretty awesome would have happened ;) If I would do something different now, it would probably be in the same industry (dev tools), either doing a different startup or working for an interesting company.
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I'm always interested in entrepreneurship, but the thought of failure (not having enough money to feed my dog 😭) and not knowing where to start have always given me pause. What advice would you have for someone looking to start a business of their own?
Also, If you weren't the CEO of Codeship, what do you think you'd be doing now (and where)? :D
Great questions
That was awesome & a lot of fun for me :)
It's hard; I won't lie. The first half of our journey, I didn't make any $ of Codeship. I have a tremendous amount of respect for every founder who believes in a crazy idea and jumps right into it.
I think it depends on your situation. We didn't do Codeship full-time until we acquired our first couple of customers. We hedged our risk a bit. Once it was more obvious that what we do can be "real, " and other people are willing to pay for it, we went all-in. Maybe you could do the same? Maybe there are some ways how you could validate your idea on the side, make some progress to de-risk everything?
I don't know what would have happened if I wouldn't have started Codeship. Honestly, no idea (maybe I'm not creative enough). I hope something else that's pretty awesome would have happened ;) If I would do something different now, it would probably be in the same industry (dev tools), either doing a different startup or working for an interesting company.