Build something small. Maybe it’s an online course, an e-book, or a little app that you sell in an app store. Just pick something and ship it. The amount of education that happens in that alone would amaze you. You’ll need to consider what sort of business entity to form and set up a way of dealing with your expenses and revenue. You’ll need to figure out how to market what you’ve done—how to get it in front of interested parties. On top of that, you might find yourself making sales pitches. The list goes on. Not all of that is the deeply technical work that we’re used to doing, but it’s
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