What I Learned in My First Year as a Solo Founder

Tigran Hakobyan
The Startup
Published in
7 min readMar 26, 2019

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In 2018, I decided to start a side-project so I could have a second source of income. I thought that building a side-business would help me gain skills that I’d not otherwise acquire in my current job. It would be a year full of joy and disappointment, but little did I know that it would also turn out to be the best year for my personal growth.

I got into writing, found my…

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Tigran Hakobyan
The Startup

software engineer @netflix / interested in computers, words and investing