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I want to start my own company, but Im not sure how to pay my bills while looking for product-market-fit.

I have a well paying job now, and I am pretty sure I would throw my marriage into chaos if I told my wife I was leaving my job to pursue a start up. Shes not stupid, she knows start ups have like a 90% failure rate.

So the question is: how do I continue my current standard of living for my family while working on a startup?

Are all startups at my age generally side hustles that become profitable enough to quit my day job?

Does anyone here have experience with this?

So it's been repeated to death. Don't build your product until you validate your idea has strong product market fit. To do this, you should do something that doesn't scale, like set up a web page and do the work manually, like DoorDash.

OK, but what if the idea can't be validated like this because the whole value proposition is automating stuff.

To give specifics, I want to build something around setting up automated builds of Blockchains. I don't see how I can validate this idea without actually building at least some of the product first. Like, I can't manually mine blocks.

Am I over thinking this? (probably I reckon)