I’m big on just doing something and being around the right people. I started as a freelance project manager in marketing. Worked in a co-working space around a Tech Community. Now building a startup community business. I still run projects, as the core service grows, that keeps cashflow in the business but eventually we will flip. I notice that a lot of the successful software companies I work with employ a similar model. At heart, they are building products, but their teams still offer contract dev work to keep cashflow while they build. This also has the added benefit of meaning they can bootstrap rather than raise to fund growth.