I have been at Apple for 5+ years doing AI.
Recently, I’ve found a potential co-founder and we explored a few ideas, while I was on family leave. We enjoy working with each other, but we have not identified a promising problem/opportunity yet where we have a unique insight. Now, I am considering leaving my daytime job to join my co-founder on this exploration journey full time, because I realized moonlighting is not working well for me with a demanding daytime job and a family. I’ve saved up enough to be comfortable for 1.5 years with no salary without cutting too deep into the savings.
My main concern is that we don’t yet have a validated idea or a unique insight AND we are both first-time founders.
What are the odds that we even exit the idea maze successfully? Here, I loosely define “success” as having a clear value proposition, developing a unique insight, and raising, say, 2M+ seed round.
Would appreciate your thoughts.
Have any of you quit your job to explore startup ideas? If so, how well did it work for you?
My main concern is that we don’t yet have a validated idea or a unique insight AND we are both first-time founders.
What are the odds that we even exit the idea maze successfully? Here, I loosely define “success” as having a clear value proposition, developing a unique insight, and raising, say, 2M+ seed round.
Would appreciate your thoughts. Have any of you quit your job to explore startup ideas? If so, how well did it work for you?