[msandford]

Everyone's life FEELS hard, especially compared to the lives of those a few rungs up the ladder.

That said, not everyone's life IS hard. If you can afford not to take a paycheck for a few months to work on a dream, perhaps you should recalibrate your "how hard life is"-o-meter.

[jtriest]

Was simply explaining how we as a firm view our relationships with founders of other startups... I'm grateful for everything I have.

[msandford]

Sure, I'm not saying that you don't provide value and you don't go to work every day. But remember, your business is much more about idea/team/market/execution arbitrage in a fairly illiquid environment than it is about doing the actual dirty work. VC is much more a meta-business than a "regular" business.

[robk]

VC fundraising is very similar to startup fundraising at least. Lots and lots of rejection, continuous pitching and substitute "traction" for "track record".