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by legitster
2290 days ago
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Work a job as normal and boring as you can find. Boring is, boring. But boredom is a good way to build up energy for a future run at a startup. Also, one thing you lose working in a startup for a long period of time is perspective on what "normal" problems are. Which is why so many startups look like they only target other startups. The best ideas come from working in an industry long enough to understand the specifics about a problem, how to solve it, and who would buy it. |
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Some of my anecdotal evidence: Left an exploded and then imploded startup (where I was one of the first employees), completely burned out and was approached by a guy for a startup.
Sounded good, but my creative energy was gone and my wife told me to go to hell if I wanted to start a company with a newborn on the way.
Went to a super boring corporate job instead that had three big benefits:
1) Nice and cushy 9 to 5 with great money to lick my wounds
2) As OP said: Energy came back and I realigned with normal people and normal problems
3) I left after 11 months with a nice bore-out and so many great examples of what not to do in a company that it had my fire lighted and ready to go.
Turned out the guy who wanted me for the startup had waited for me and together we built the largest streaming search engine worldwide over the past 5 years.
That in turn was a serious roller coaster ride with its own story again, but that wasn't your question, right? :)