If you want to try a startup anyway, here a few bits of advice:
Your company will be very demanding and not lucrative for quite some time. You’ll need slack everywhere else. Avoid debt like the plague. Relationships will be challenging.
When you have employees, their perspective will diverge from yours. It’s not their company. It’s not their dream. It’s just a job to them.
Joining a startup is like going on a blind date. There is a finite number of times you can do it before it becomes incredibly depressing. The first one is an adventure, and the second one you know will be different. After that …
Yep, I agree that’s the trade-off, and I agree it doesn’t sound like the right one for a lot of people.
If you want to try a startup anyway, here a few bits of advice:
Your company will be very demanding and not lucrative for quite some time. You’ll need slack everywhere else. Avoid debt like the plague. Relationships will be challenging.
When you have employees, their perspective will diverge from yours. It’s not their company. It’s not their dream. It’s just a job to them.
Joining a startup is like going on a blind date. There is a finite number of times you can do it before it becomes incredibly depressing. The first one is an adventure, and the second one you know will be different. After that …
Good luck!