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Stay at your soul sucking job until you know the new business can support you. That's what I did. After about 2 years of doing both, I finally quit and did my side gig. That was 14 years ago.

You know the answer to this...

Just schedule your first client meetings online and out of your time zone.

Where did you learn software development?

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take some vacation time, and during some of those days try out the marketing/talking to customers, and see how it goes?

Basically it's important your product is validated and is actually something users want before you quit. Unless of course, you have money to burn or as someone else said here, just come back to your job if it doesn't work out.

Most businesses fail and most Entrepreneurs are broke.

It's ok to work a job and don't quit until your business is successful if you want to pursue Entrepreneurship.

Hope you understand.

Best to you

You could reason me to do the calls. I'm an engineer trying to progress into finance but starting with improving my salesman ship. I'll do it for the experience. I'm confident and I put out fires stop selling software seems like the reasonable next step. Pls don't ban me for bad advice.

I’ve been in your position before. I had golden handcuffs and I quit to start my own thingbecause I knew if i didn’t I would always wonder what if and it would eat me alive. There is a catch though. I did this before I had a family or a house to pay for. If I had those, I would not have done it. Also, if your product doesn’t work out, if you are outside your industry for a couple years it’s going to be a pain in the ass to break back in. I would call myself highly competent, but I routinely found myself in final round interviews when I tried to reenter tech following and they went with the other option because all things considered equal, would you rather the talent who has been working in tech the last 3 years, or the talent who built a logistics company over the last 3 years. So, all of this to say, I would only quit if you don’t have a family that depends on you and don’t own a house. I would also advise you to ensure you have a lot of savings to last you through a brutal hiring period should you elect to return. Good luck!

Get your first customer first. $1 to $1m is a hundred times easier than $0 to $1.

Sounds like you need a vacation. Flights to Europe through Iceland Air are on sale tonight, take some you time. Really think about this, and most of all, think of your current job but what it would be like doing ALL the jobs at work. Are you ready? Do you have a real team together? (P.S. I like money)

Acquire your first few customers before quitting. The first few customers are the hardest to get.

Get your first 5 customers who are locked in before you quit. Take holiday days if you need to meet them. Tell them you are flat out with other customers but can do calls 8am or 6pm. Being in demand will make you more in demand.

Sounds like you are nearly there but don’t quit too early is my advice.

Not right now. Downturn in economy.

It really depends on multiple factors, but if you don’t have a ton of savings i would recommend leaving your job as late as possible. Also before starting to really sell it is always a good idea to test product with friends, random people and also validate PMF. Once you proved that people really need what you built you can go all in

Coming into this having considered this with a close friend many years ago, and the realities we saw that came up.

The very first thing you need to ask yourself is do you have a large enough nest egg to give you the runway to get a business up and running with some sort of reoccurring revenue? What is your way of monetizing? Do you have the skills needed on the development side, operations side, and business side to get you to where you need to be to make this successful.

My personal recommendation for you is to start going to various software/tech user groups in your area, especially entrepreneurial one focused on startups.

Golden handcuffs don't exist. All handcuffs are just normal handcuffs painted with fake gold. You'll see this when you get laid off, or fired for a random arbitrary reason after years of commitment.

Don’t quit your day job

I've 100% been in your shoes but gotta say, if you don't have customers you don't have a business, you have a hobby.

I would stop all development work on the product and sign up 10 customers. See what that process is like, see if you like it, hear their objections. You'll find a way to take sales calls during the work day (I used to from my car at lunchtime).

If you get 10 paying customers, why not 100, why not 1,000.

Can you automate the signup process or do a self-service demo somehow? I've done pre-recorded videos en lieu of sales calls for a time and it worked ok.

Generally though, I would NOT just quit your job if you have zero paying customers. Ease into it. Sounds like you've been burning the candle at both ends for a while, and I have mad respect for that, but probably best to keep doing it a bit longer til you have some sense for what revenue of the business could really look like. Especially if you have kids and a family to support.