I built and sold two SaaS companies, and the supermajority of the economic value was built a) before anyone on the Internets knew who I was and b) requiring no Yes from anybody other than a customer (or, I suppose, a tax agency, but their Yes are mostly "Yes, we got that return")
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"Where'd you get the money to start?" Credit cards. Mostly, other people's.
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"Is there a non-trolling way to phrase that?" It cost ~$60 to get a website set up back in the day to the point where I could successfully sell a thing that existed to customers for money. After that point, funded the business almost entirely through revenue.
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"Almost?" Definitely have a credit card and a line of credit if you can get it. Cash flow management in a small business is non-trivial; they're great, great things to have.
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Considering "career capital," it's worth thinking about where you want to demonstrate your ability to produce value — within a massive org, or without permission & without a blueprint. Both are good, but you're demonstrating two very different skill sets
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I think you can launder N years of experience in #2, but probably not X0 years, into a BigCo legible form by joining a quickly-growing startup, for what it is worth. A bit harder to launder the other way, since "I worked at Google!" sells no SaaS. (Might help vis funding.)
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People and rules are allergic to each other
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In general, people are not reducible to binary features; stories are of limited use, but at least transparently so, checklists hide their subjectivity under the hood
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Nowhere is the best training there is, usually
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Yes. I agree on both counts.https://twitter.com/tylertringas/status/1167944897875214339?s=21 …
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