<story><title>On Starting a Software Business</title><url>http://stephaniehurlburt.com/blog/2017/6/24/on-starting-a-software-business</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>siliconc0w</author><text>Consulting doesn&amp;#x27;t scale, software does.&lt;p&gt;One pragmatic strategy to find product&amp;#x2F;customers:&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;    1) Pick an industry
    2) Ask someone in that industry what they use spreadsheets for
    3) Build something better
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
There is a lot of &amp;#x27;cybernetic&amp;#x27; processes that are a mix of humans with domain knowledge and machines with spreadsheets for schemaless storage and querying. Generally the move is to encode the domain knowledge into code and standardize the storage (i.e excel -&amp;gt; RDMS) to make it more useful.</text></comment>
<story><title>On Starting a Software Business</title><url>http://stephaniehurlburt.com/blog/2017/6/24/on-starting-a-software-business</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>walkingolof</author><text>- &amp;quot;We can make a decent salary out of this&amp;quot; - 36 months - 48 months&lt;p&gt;I started and 10 years later made a successfully exit from my company, we never raised any money, the above figure is what it took us to go from financing our development our self (by having two jobs), to having enough customers to break even.&lt;p&gt;I think everyone should, bootstrap one company to get a feel for how it is, will make you a better entrepreneur.</text></comment>