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No offence, but your comment is incredibly silly. There are plenty of successful businesses that started on kitchen tables with miniscule budgets and grew organ
by notlikely 17y ago
No offence, but your comment is incredibly silly. There are plenty of successful businesses that started on kitchen tables with miniscule budgets and grew organically as the founders learned as they went along.
The cliche of the macho startup entreprenuer working 100 hours weeks and burning through cash for five years is not how many people become successful. Plenty of people start quietly in their spare time and build as they go along.
Startups require risk and sacrifice - yes, this is true. But not all businesses demand your internal organs and your wallet.
- jon_dahl 17y agoI hate the macho startup cliche as much as you. 100 hour weeks don't help a startup - they hurt - and it's never a good idea to dig a hole deeper than you can get out of. But if you count your own time, which is worth AT LEAST $20/hour (if not $100), then you aren't going to get very far if you're only willing to commit $1000. Even if you don't count your own time, many opportunities require significantly more than $1K. Success in a startup comes from tenacity more than anything else. If you aren't willing to make a real commitment (as the GP was suggesting), you're setting yourself up to fail.
- notlikely 17y agoAh, yes I agree with you. Success comes from tenacity. But the original comment made me think all start ups should be sprinters. Some of us are marathon runners, or even long distance walkers! We get there, slower. But the persistence is just the same, even more, perhaps, due to the longer time frame.