How to Become a Founder

You have three thousand in savings, one paying customer who has not paid yet, and a spreadsheet that says both of those facts are fine.

Ideas are cheap; the defensible version of an idea is not. The corridor breathed around you, a slow mechanical exhale that made the overhead lights shiver. You counted the seconds between flickers the way you had been taught: four, then three, then one. Whatever kept the timing was getting impatient.