Upthrust

As a developer, you are sitting on a goldmine. Do you even realize it?

No, seriously, a @#$% goldmine! Never in modern history has it been so easy to create something from scratch, with little or no capital and a marketing model that is limited only by your imagination.

Think about the biggest websites you visit or use on a regular basis: Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, Foursquare, or even Google for that matter — all of them were created by developers who created something from little more than an idea in their head. Was it easy for them? Heck no. But it could only have been done in today’s day and age. So why in the world are you sitting there day after day working for someone else?

Yeah, I do too. I hate it.

So if there are so many amazing opportunities out there, why aren’t more developers out there working for themselves? I think there is a pretty common set of excuses that we tell ourselves. None of them are legit!

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