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by weddpros
4573 days ago
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Starting a startup is not just a matter of technical skills and getting hired as a coder might be difficult if you dropped out of college. A few ideas, straight out of my mind (please don't flame):
- You should start a blog to document your journey anyway. Maybe you'll write a book about the whole experience later.
- Build a website for college dropouts meetups? Maybe you can build something that's bigger than you.
- Learn something, and become an expert at it. Learn Git/GitHub then write about it. Start a "become a Git hero in 6 weeks" blog?
- teach yourself a niche technology, rather than Ruby on Rails: socket.io mastery on node.js maybe? or mongodb admin? or nginx admin? Don't spread yourself too thin: you can't teach yourself everything at once. Get a Wordpress.com blog instead of hosting one... except if you want to learn it and then teach how to host your own Wordpress :) Teach yourself something thoroughly, a skill that's rare enough (if you're THE guy who wrote a book on sails.js, who cares you dropped out of college?). D3.js could be another option. HN is definitely the right place to target the perfect technological niche. I've only suggested a few that I've looked into myself. Remember, you don't have much to lose yet. But DO something, learn something. You can be bold, but you must ship. |
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Where I'm from a college degree doesn't mean you are good in something. But show you are someone who can follow through on something instead of being a quitter.
Off course if there is something else you could show that you can reach a significant goal that needed some persistence please pursue it.