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Ask HN: What should you do an year or two before starting up?

3 pointsby husmoover 7 years ago
As someone who started his first tech job and is interested in starting up eventually. What should I be doing in the next two years to be better prepared for when I start up?<p>To phrase it differently, how should I be spending the next two years to be in a better situation to start up.

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nostrademonsover 7 years ago
1. Save money.<p>2. Get comfortable talking to strangers.<p>3. Make friends with people with complementary skillsets.<p>4. Learn all the tools associated with software development - git&#x2F;GitHub, an IDE or editor, basic UNIX commands, curl&#x2F;scp&#x2F;ssh, some form of bugtracker (could be as simple as GitHub Issues or Google Sheets).<p>5. Learn a modern, open-source tech stack that you can use out of the box without the benefit of your employer.