Excellent article on how to stop working at a big company and start being an entrepreneur by Daniel Tenner. The cliff notes version.

1. Register a business.
2. Connect to the local startup community.
3. Read Hacker News.
4. Build something someone uses (one someone is enough).
5. Build something that you will personally continue to use.
6. Start a blog.
7. Write something that Hacker News will vote to the top 5 of the front page.
8. Sell something online.
9. Sell something intangible in person.
10. Come up with 10 ideas.
11. Invalidate the 3 best of the 10 ideas.
12. Rinse and repeat steps 10 and 11 until you get something that works.

At the end of his post Daniel states that he hopes it helps someone. Well he helped me with these words:

Post something to your blog every day, no matter how short. Don't worry about people thinking you're stupid: no one will read your blog anyway.