Heh. I don't mind the advice given in the article, but it's a little light and common-sensical for my tastes. Of course you map out your expenses for a year, of course you double the resources needed and halve the resources available, of course you evaluate your strengths and weaknesses to plot your own course. I don't know if Myers-Briggs is the best self-evaluation for this purpose, but the basic idea is a good one.



As far as mind corruption goes, it's certainly too easy to imagine how nice it would be to run your own little shop, and lose sight of the state of the industry, the state of the economy, and the risks involved. I'd like to have a million dollars so I can start my own company, but I can't imagine it'd ever be the other way around.

My roommate (upon seeing it was an MSDN article) says, 'Don't read that. It will corrupt your mind!'

Well, we started our own business...and we didn't read an MSDN article, hehehehe.



We didn't have any real capital ($1,000,000 or otherwise). We just found a way to start out with overhead we could could come up with out-of-pocket, and made it happen out of our personal work. I think unemployment helped. Hehehehe.