Ask HN: How to go about starting an ambitious software startup?
I have an idea for a service which I find rather compelling and am very confident in, centered around multi-platform app family (Spotify-style.)
I'm a developer, but my experience and skillset would not be sufficient for me to begin laying down the architectural foundation for a project this ambitious on my own, nor do I have any software-talented friends who would be able to do so as co-founders.
I would like to apply to Y-Com this winter, but I'm not sure how to proceed. How do you get investors with no product and no customers? You can't customers without a product and you can't get a product without the people with the skills to build it, who you can't hire without money. I'm uncertain where the entrance to this vicious circle is!
I'm a developer, but my experience and skillset would not be sufficient for me to begin laying down the architectural foundation for a project this ambitious on my own, nor do I have any software-talented friends who would be able to do so as co-founders.
I would like to apply to Y-Com this winter, but I'm not sure how to proceed. How do you get investors with no product and no customers? You can't customers without a product and you can't get a product without the people with the skills to build it, who you can't hire without money. I'm uncertain where the entrance to this vicious circle is!