How Much Money Do You Need to Start Your Entrepreneurial Journey?

When you decide to pursue your own path, be the captain of your fate, the master of your soul and the boss of your dreams, you’ve decided to become an entrepreneur. An entrepreneurial journey is one that involves creating positive change, taking risks, building a team and making a dent on the universe.

Clearly, this journey is not an easy one. It’s fraught with risks, stress and uncertainty. What’s critical while having the ‘luxury’ of pursuing this journey is that you’ve given your finances a serious look, and have them in order. But, how much money do you really need in the bank to start your entrepreneurial adventure?

The simple answer is that there is no secret recipe or ‘exact amount’ of money you need to begin. No ‘amount’ fits all, so you’ve got to nail down your own financial formula. But, there are some frameworks which cannot be neglected. So let’s get right into them!

Creating a Cloud Backend for Your Android App Using Parse

We previously published an article on using Parse to provide a backend for iOS apps and thought we should write one for the Android developers who want to know how to integrate the Parse SDK in their app.
If you read the previous article, you can skip the introduction. We wanted the articles to be stand-alone tutorials, so you don’t have to read the previous one to follow along with this one

Introduction

With the increased use of mobile devices, it is common for applications to offer features such as backup storage, data sync, data sharing etc. Building stand alone applications that only function and save their data on the device they are installed on is at times not feasible. A backend is usually needed where data can be saved and manipulated for the app to provide the service it was intended for.
Building this requires time, a different skill set and other resources (e.g. servers, push notification services, etc). Fortunately, there are several platforms that provide ready-made customizable backends that you can integrate with your apps. These are known as ‘Backend as a Service’, or BaaS in short.