Lessons from a failed lounge room startup
A mate of mine living in Amsterdam, was sick of being a highly paid IT contractor so he decided to start a business from his lounge room with his MacBook Air. Despite having no web design or development skills, it would be an online business. Nine months down the track he tells me how he went and what he learnt. What were you doing before you went off on your own? Working as a Contractor/Freelancer for IBM inside a Financial Institution working on Large complex transformation programs virtualizing Bank infrastructure. Wow that’s a mouthful. When people ask what I do …