My own experience is that entrepreneurship is a solitary business. As a Founder/CEO, we don’t really have any peers. In retrospect, I wished I had listened more to my own instinct. It turns out that entrepreneurs are different (but not unique) in that we are better in parallel processing and we can do free association better than anyone else. Like hungry dogs in the wild, we are a unique breed. Sometimes we forget or we choose to ignore that differentiating difference. Whatever you do, don’t lose your confidence in yourself and for goodness sake, don't dumb down and don't allow yourself to be domesticated. There is no guarantee that just because you keep trying, you will necessarily succeed. But if we fail because we have elected not to trust our instinct, then we are screwed for eternity.

Good luck.

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A lot of people will tell you to found a company along with others. YCombinator´s Paul Graham tells you to do this. Now while it is good to reflect your ideas, discuss them and confront yourself with other people, I can not confirm that they have to be your co-founders.

If you can afford employees, do so, and DONT AT NO PRICE let the work be done by co-founders. Most of them will be not mature enough to run a company. Many of them will have a blurry vision of how hard it can be to earn money. Most of them will have no clue about how a market works. And last but not least: it is very unlikely that you will be able to convince people you know very well (at a professional level) to join your company, because: they will either already be working in an own company or making good money and carreer if they are skilled.
So usually the “co-founders” you get are people who are in high doubt to have no talent or skill whatsoever needed on the market, or who just at this moment at least dont WANT to work. I had my pleasure with people who just dont know how to meet deadlines, I had my pleasure with people who thought that by moving a little finger millions will drop out of the sky. And I had my pleasure with the ones who thought that “Building a ftartup if fo muff fun”.

My message to you is: get some capital, and HIRE people. Discuss and reflect with skilled partners and friends, who are most likely not free at the time you want to start your startup.

And last but not least: do as much as you can by yourself.

I´m eager for comments on this one

Cya folks