Eric Sink on Starting Your Own Software Company

prostoalex writes "The topic of starting your own software company was recently brought up on Ask Slashdot as a way to fight current employment trends. Eric Sink from SourceGear, who shared his software company-building experience before has written a new article published on MSDN. Getting started with your own software company suggests several simple steps to evaluate your abilities, count your estimated expenses and then start the software company, if the idea still seems feasible."

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Ok, here is what you do:

[JRHelgeson]

So, you want to start a software company, and nobody is going to talk you out of it.

Here is what you do:

1) Come up with a solid idea for a software program that you know is marketable.
2) File your tax return
3) Take said tax return and hire 5 programmers in India for one full year.
4) ...
5) PROFIT!