Hi forum,
Nice to meet you all!
I just finished TFL and am reading Unscripted right now.
Those two books had such massive impact on me, my mindset and my upcoming actions.
I always had itches to build stuff. For myself I never made it over the finish-line in terms of success. Paying customers would be success for me. My struggles and lack of confidence led me to move to Silicon Valley and join a startup as a Product Manager (for zero salary at first but luckily they paid me after a few months). I came willing to learn until I feel more confident to go my own way again.
...7 years later...
I learned a LOT, built confidence and enjoyed the journey. This first company got bought by a bigger company in the Valley, where I learned more. I joined another startup (AI/ML related), pretty advanced stuff and I am liking the work, learning again. However, I totally dropped the ball to become independent, my primary goal. Silicon Valley companies make you feel really comfortable, you know. Little side projects never led anywhere...it's enough... time to take action towards my good old goal of independence.
Here I am, making changes that need to be made. Shifting mindset, using free-time to evaluate my options where I could apply my skills. I don't need to start from zero (in terms of having money to invest) so I don't need to flip stuff on craigslist or ebay but at least it would be action.
I actually thought about setting up a profile on Upwork. Again, don't need the capital but I could also just wait until I come up with something, then I will see you again in 7 years...
To end with a question, I would like to get some opinions. If you were in my situation and had some capital to invest, what would be a starting point to think about? My expertise is in web/mobile applications. (UX/UI, Web Applications, Mobile Applications, Analytics, Product Management, Web development) I've launched and grew a bunch of apps for these companies (B2B and B2C). Some got featured in the app store and made the companies good money. But they also had teams, brands, marketing experts and sales people to help grow.
I need to do it all for myself now, end-to-end. I am hesitant buying something on flippa etc. Rather evaluate some ideas and then build it myself. I have an app idea in mind, which I am planning to build and launch but it will take some time.
I am hesitant to spend money on other developers to build it because I want to learn it myself, which again, takes more time. Maybe I don't believe in the idea enough... See what I am doing there... action faking, hesitation? I don't know, not willing to take risk by investing money?
Maybe I start by making and Upwork profile and see how I could apply my current skills to make money on that platform... at least that would be action, wouldn't it? Is that something you have struggled with before?
Well, I am thankful that I found this gem of a book and very excited to meet all of you.
Lastly, I added my background so people get to know me and my skills a little bit. If these might be in any way helpful to anyone here, please reach out. I got so much value from this forum, time to give back.
Nice to meet you all!
I just finished TFL and am reading Unscripted right now.
Those two books had such massive impact on me, my mindset and my upcoming actions.
I always had itches to build stuff. For myself I never made it over the finish-line in terms of success. Paying customers would be success for me. My struggles and lack of confidence led me to move to Silicon Valley and join a startup as a Product Manager (for zero salary at first but luckily they paid me after a few months). I came willing to learn until I feel more confident to go my own way again.
...7 years later...
I learned a LOT, built confidence and enjoyed the journey. This first company got bought by a bigger company in the Valley, where I learned more. I joined another startup (AI/ML related), pretty advanced stuff and I am liking the work, learning again. However, I totally dropped the ball to become independent, my primary goal. Silicon Valley companies make you feel really comfortable, you know. Little side projects never led anywhere...it's enough... time to take action towards my good old goal of independence.
Here I am, making changes that need to be made. Shifting mindset, using free-time to evaluate my options where I could apply my skills. I don't need to start from zero (in terms of having money to invest) so I don't need to flip stuff on craigslist or ebay but at least it would be action.
I actually thought about setting up a profile on Upwork. Again, don't need the capital but I could also just wait until I come up with something, then I will see you again in 7 years...
To end with a question, I would like to get some opinions. If you were in my situation and had some capital to invest, what would be a starting point to think about? My expertise is in web/mobile applications. (UX/UI, Web Applications, Mobile Applications, Analytics, Product Management, Web development) I've launched and grew a bunch of apps for these companies (B2B and B2C). Some got featured in the app store and made the companies good money. But they also had teams, brands, marketing experts and sales people to help grow.
I need to do it all for myself now, end-to-end. I am hesitant buying something on flippa etc. Rather evaluate some ideas and then build it myself. I have an app idea in mind, which I am planning to build and launch but it will take some time.
I am hesitant to spend money on other developers to build it because I want to learn it myself, which again, takes more time. Maybe I don't believe in the idea enough... See what I am doing there... action faking, hesitation? I don't know, not willing to take risk by investing money?
Maybe I start by making and Upwork profile and see how I could apply my current skills to make money on that platform... at least that would be action, wouldn't it? Is that something you have struggled with before?
Well, I am thankful that I found this gem of a book and very excited to meet all of you.
Lastly, I added my background so people get to know me and my skills a little bit. If these might be in any way helpful to anyone here, please reach out. I got so much value from this forum, time to give back.
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