Ask HN: I have no “business sense” what to do about it?

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Bit of quick background: no education, have worked mostly in lower paying software jobs in a variety of environments (mostly non-tech) I suppose this may be a place to ask as this seems above all, a business oriented site. I have absolutely no “business sense”. In fact, I’m not even sure if that’s the correct term. There’s always a lot of talk of startups and businesses on here and it all seems so foreign to me. I have no network (most people I’ve worked with have been lifers at whatever company or I’ve long since fallen out of touch) and virtually no friends at this point. I have no idea how to go about entrepreneurship: knowing where to look for problems, figuring out if a problem could be a potential business, etc. I know very little about business finance or how to bootstrap something. I have no capital of my own and am not sure I could build any in a reasonable amount of time (though perhaps some software business, such as SaaS products, don’t require much to get started). I don’t

Published 11 Apr 2021
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