| This is a comment from Lucretia Pruitt from CDixon's original entry. Truer words, never spoken: 'The important distinction is whether you risked everything, put your life on the line' -- CDixon Really? I think you might be confusing "lifestyle" with "life" - soldiers, police officers, fire fighters... They put their _lives_ on the line. Until there's gunfire in the boardroom or the need to run through a burning building to plug in a server? You don't have any idea what putting your life on the line means if you think it fits in with being a startup guy. Putting your life on the line means risking you life - last I checked, not a lot of
"oops sorry Bob - the market took a wrong turn and it killed us... So here's your
poison pill, hare kiri knife, gun with just one bullet... We know you'll do the right thing." I've been the kid of the successful start up parents - even when they were off with new partners. It's no noble, heroic, the-music-swells-at-the-end scene where the kids clambour around the conquering parent saying "Yes! Yes! Who cares if you missed every school play I was ever in! You built a company from the ground up and won!" No, actually, your kids will have the dual issue of hating that they never had you around and have sworn never to do that to their own kids along with this knowledge that the only way you'll approve of them is if the do the same thing to their kids. Some day we'll hit that paradigm where success doesn't require the sacrifice of you family - but apparently not today. |