entrepreneurs on TypeC?

[Octarine]

So does anyone want to share details about your experiences the incubation process of a startup? How do you discover marketable ideas in the first place? How do you predict whether such ideas will actually scale up into a workable product? How do you then recruit a suitable team and capital to actually take the idea off the ground?

 

[thisGuy]

sure. will do in about 2-3 weeks

 

[RDF]

Here's an article by Scott Adams (creator of the "Dilbert" cartoon) on the foundations of entrepreneurship. It just kind of goes into the mindset that you need in order to be a serial entrepreneur.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB100...6247143383496656.html?mod=WSJ_hp_mostpop_read

As for myself, I was a self-employed independent contractor for 7-8 years at one point in my career. Loved the hours and the freedom to develop my career at my own pace. But eventually I was happy to accept a staff position with one of my clients and have access to all the bennies provided by a big organization (health plan, pension, and all that).

That used to be the normal career trajectory for my field (translation): Work at home for a few years (or for a few decades) getting yourself established, and wait for someone to retire or die at one of the big translation bureaus.

 

[Little Linguist]

I've started my own business. Does that count? At the moment, I do a great deal of freelance jobs, but I'm also building a client base on my own.