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First of, all the best to you!

Regarding your point: That does not sound like an issue inherent to startups, but more like an issue of bad prioritizing. Why does an start-up have to be all-or-nothing? Robert Graham advocates this way of going in, but there are plenty successfull examples of people keeping it low out there too.

Yes, stress is a killer, and startups are often more stressfull than other jobs - but most of the effects of stress depend on how on is dealing with it. And that can be trained.