Ask HN: Who has started a business because they couldn't get hired for work?
Sales engineer here. I tried to start a variety of businesses when I was laid off from my last job, where I lasted for 4 years.<p>I tried to get clients for my life coaching biz (budget, brain, and brawns as I called it). Got some traction at just 7 bux a month (I was living in Chile), but not enough once I moved back to NY.<p>I also tried to test product market fit for a site i was developing (a curated list of multi-month foreign apartment leases), but that was too expensive for me to scale.<p>Ultimately, making a prototype and getting some users wasnt even the hardest part. It was trying to grow past that base and make the unit economics work that was impossible, maybe even with outside funding.<p>After one year of job hunting, I found another sales engineering position that Im happy with :)