Sometimes I feel up, sometimes I feel down. The problem is that in the last month I’ve been on the down side.

The two or three of you who read this blog probably know already that I’ve been dreaming of being my own boss for a while now. I remember being a fourth-year college student, more than 3 years ago, and dreaming alongside with Sergiu about doing our own firm. Things seemed so simple back then…

In the two and a half years of studying and working abroad, the thought of creating my own business has never left me. Even more, chatting with Cezar only got it bigger(for better or for worse). It was contagious and, for the funny part, a YM talk more than two years ago with Cezar on the opportunity of launching an outsourcing firm got to the creation of K2 IT and Soft Solutions, the firm of 5 of my friends but, sadly enough, not mine as well. The point being that I’ve been an enthusiastic about going into business for quite a while. And also that always dreaming about your own business makes any other job seem crappy by comparison, and every moment spent at the job a waste of your much too precious time.
It’s been more than one month since I got back from France, closing all the doors behind me, fermly decided to become a millionaire by the time I was 30 and not look back. Well, now I look back at the last month and something and ponder:

• you should always have AN IDEA if you want to become an entrepreneur. Me? I had about 5 ideas. The problem with all of them being that they are Web2.0-based, not having a revenue model, thus making them into pretty interesting websites but with no foreseable success.
• you should have some clients, some orders, some promisses before quitting your day-job. Don’t go autside in the dark, as you’re likely to get easily depressed. As I am now.
• you should have at least a partner when getting started. Even bad partners(but with minimum equity) should do it. As Robert Maxim said two days ago: no top athletes train alone. We all need some pushers, the ones who always ask: how are you going alone? When will you be finished? The temptation of not doing anything all day-long is too big.
• you should have little ressources. Enough for 3 months, but not more. Something to keep you working all-day-long. Being hungry helps.
• you should have plenty of friends, a frequent social life and as few distractions as possible. You should keep coding, not blogging. In other words, the opposite of what I am doing now.

In my defense, I am still on holliday. In the same way I kept promissing myself before college midterms: “tomorrow I’ll start working really hard”, I’m always repeating as well: “from tomorrow on, I’ll work really, really hard“.

Motivate me, please! And give me ideas! I need some moral help!