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by ptn 6483 days ago
Im in Peru, so I first have to figure out a way to move to a startup hub and only then can I start. I'm possibly going for a scholarship to do a masters, which would delay me (I must finish it, being a scholarship I can't drop out), but at least would get me there. This is kinda frustrating, because to get a scholarship I must have good grades, but studying steals hacking time...

In the meantime, I'm honing my programming skills. I've been programming for a while now, I'd say that I'm intermediate. I know Pascal, C, Python, and bits of Java, C# and Lisp (I'll look deeper into this one though). My main objective now is to design and code larger apps.
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anamax 6483 days ago
As someone who makes fun of folks who say "{place} is just as good for startups as SV", I want to point out that you don't have to move to a startup hub to do a startup.

There are advantages to doing a startup where you are. If/when you move, it will take you a while to learn as much as you currently know about the resources where you are now. In addition, you can start now instead of waiting.

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wheels 6482 days ago
Agreed. It's a lot harder to start a startup away from a hub, but really, it's going to be hard to raise funding, and even harder to succeed in your first startup anyway. You might as well go through the motions once to learn how to do it before the stakes are higher. At a minimum you'll learn what running a business is about. Plus, if you're living somewhere like Peru with low cost of living and focusing on an international market, bootstrapping is a lot more practical.
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ptn 6483 days ago
There's just no way to rise funds here :(

My plan is to program some big stuff myself, so as to learn about design; read the code of some open source software, to learn how others design; and program something from scratch with someone else and submit patches to an OS software, to learn how to work with other hackers. I hope that teaches me what I need.

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anamax 6482 days ago
(1) Don't do a startup that requires raising funds. (2) You probably can't raise funds in SV either.

While there are many things that are easier to build in SV, there are things that are easier to build elsewhere.

More to the point, people who build things in SV could almost certainly build things other places, they'd just build different things. If you can't build anything where you are, is it really reasonable to think that you could build something in SV?

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