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You can't have it both ways. In one breath you want to welcome highly-qualified people to start companies. In the next, you dismiss the concerns of such people
by psranga 17y ago
You can't have it both ways. In one breath you want to welcome highly-qualified people to start companies. In the next, you dismiss the concerns of such people about having to leave in two weeks if the business fails after two years without being given an opportunity to reboot with a glib comparison to getting hit by a bus.
Hint: chance of business failing is (thankfully) much higher than getting hit by a bus.
- DaniFong 17y agoI don't dismiss these concerns: I've lived them. I spent months contracting for a little startup helping them out for a little pay so that I could try to plant the seeds for my own startup so that it would look legitimate enough to the immigration people that I could get a visa for it. It's risky and scary and tenuous, and it's hard work, and I didn't have a home at the time, either: I couch surfed with a variety of very generous friends. My point is that there are certain risks one can take on the way to success. I'm not arguing that these risks shouldn't be mitigated, I'm saying that you, personally, shouldn't consider them as different in kind of the other risks that you face as an entrepreneur. Such limitations are too easily transformed into excuses.