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by bredren
1780 days ago
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Perhaps the culture of the valley has changed, but in my experience this is very common in startup accelerators. Many are too young to realize the financial and relation hardships that can result from chasing a dream and failing to deliver a fraction of hoped for results. It doesn’t help to have stories like the Airbnb founders with binders of maxed out credit cards. |
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I'm running a small startup (5 months old tomorrow) and everything is "fine" - I have funding (part of it signed, other parts seems very likely to be signed in the immediate future), a team, development is going well - but there are constant obstacles and setbacks and it's a lot harder to keep my cool/spirits than as an employee.
Rationally I know whatever happens I'll be ok (at worst I'll have to get a well paying job as a developer somewhere else) but emotionally it's different, especially when you have employees depending on a salary you're paying.
One thing I found helps a lot is to talk to other entrepreneurs who have been where you are now & I'm very fortunate to have several people like that in my professional network.