Have you ever had one of those ideas you thought could launch a startup? Or perhaps wanted to start working for yourself but weren’t sure where to start?
For those of us who have had these ideas, or been bold enough to dare to dream, what stopped you? What was it that triggered hesitation? I think for many of us, what would help us to start might be to see how it’s done. However, if someone does your idea first, or similar to how you were thinking, then is the urge to still make that leap the same? If others are walking that path then perhaps it isn’t unique enough to be a success? How do we start in a way that makes it a sustainable option worthy of our time and effort?
I too, have felt this hesitation; the mental debate and all the reasons why and why not…
Perhaps if someone clearly demonstrated the steps, and clearly outlined the potential…
For as long as I can remember, I have always had a vision of creating and selling my own software.
When I was a kid, I wanted to program games and sell them. And educational games. And then training software. Office task automation. Game engine and rendering tools. Entertainment and visual FX applications. There was no limit to what I wanted to create, I just wanted to create things.
I spent a lot of time after graduation making sure that I continued to learn and develop my skills further, and keep them up-to-date even though I was continuously employed in Business Analyst and IT Support roles due to the availability and work experience. The ideas for things that I wanted to create myself never left me.
Continuing to explore rendering project examples, physics API integrations, graphics tool development, web applications and web API integrations, all outside of the full-time work roles in the IT and Business helped me to learn a lot more than I should have. ;o)
The IT roles gave me a lot of exposure to IT requirements in the corporate environment, the gaps in standardised solutions and the availability of custom solutions, but these were just more ideas in the way of original ideas and projects.
At some point, I just had to try. If I didn’t ever try, I wouldn’t ever do it.
To try would mean finalising the products, many are prototypes, some still at the initial idea stage.
To try would mean the right distribution stream, and the right business model.
To try would mean to implement not just the software product, but a business – not just a bit at a time – but the entirety of it available all at once.
If there wasn’t a business for the products, they would sit idle.
If there weren’t products for the business, then the business would be without products.
But if I didn’t ever try, I wouldn’t ever do it.
So here I am..
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