> There's an even bigger opportunity cost to spending 3-4 years of your life on something and have it come to nothing. Sometimes a binary outcome (death or suc

> There's an even bigger opportunity cost to spending 3-4 years of your life on something and have it come to nothing. Sometimes a binary outcome (death or success) is better than going nowhere and being unable to walk away from it. Most hackers (for better or for worse) aren't really interested in managing a business, but just want to write code. I'm pretty sure all would agree that running a small business is incompatible with "just write code". Failing in two years and going back to work for The Man (to write code) doesn't sound too bad. Then again, that dynamic may be exactly why startups fail or "sell out" for sums that are leaving VCs (but not angels!) very angry e.g., "don't pull a Patzer, dipshit companies".