Thread regarding Qualcomm Inc. layoffs

Anyone thinking to start their own thing?

Just curious, how many concerned engineers reading this message board are thinking to start their own thing rather than looking for another safe job at a big corp, that will lead in 8 years (2000, 2008, now, 2024...) to the same outcome?

With your severance and the idea you've been developing during weekends, gather few fellow engineers that got some departure funds and give it a shot for half a year. SD can become a real tech hub if more would have the courage to try. I guess all the complains about incompetent management are in vain if you seek to walk the same path in the future.

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Try growing pot - number 1 growing industry in Colorado.

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Post ID: @1z6o+CmE2ie4

If the entire purpose for you to BYOB is to make money, why are you restricting yourself specifically to tech, when it's probably the most difficult kind of business to succeed in? If your entire purpose is to BYOB, you're better off trying to buy a franchise or some sort, and going low tech.

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Post ID: @kbE+CmE2ie4

Unfortunately, most engineers suffer from the same problem..They are too smart to make a successful product for the majority of the dumb people in this country. The whole analysis to paralysis syndrome.

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Post ID: @Zei+CmE2ie4

sounds like a great idea - outsource your start-up, just like the QCUM outshorce its crapdragon

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Post ID: @TuF+CmE2ie4

Already tried that, twice, and had to come to the terms that I'm not cut out for it. Dreams are just dreams. Reality bites with viscous sharp teeth!

Only shell out what you can afford to loose and you know already that you will loose it, like in LV. But hey, we still go there now and then :-)

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Post ID: @Szo+CmE2ie4

Depends on what you mean by "own thing". That's the purpose of why some of us diversify into real estate, completely different from techie stuff. Tech startups are extremely difficult, short of being an consulting firm that tries to grab business by hiring a bunch of contractors overseas. It's less a matter of technical talent as it is about who you know.

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