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Python Startups and the True Entrepreneur
- Swizec 16y agoBut ... it's just _fun_. Who cares about the rewards, I want _fun_ and I want it NOW. A steady job just can't give you that. And to top it all off, it can't give you the possibility of a big reward either. lose-lose edit: that is to say, a big reward that somebody gives you, isn't a reward at all, you're supposed to go get it yourself
- StavrosK 16y agoExactly. To draw from my experiences, working on historious is so amazingly fun that I can't wait to finish whatever else I'm doing to work on it. It's not work, it's a hobby that (sometimes) pays. It's exactly the same as playing WoW, only more socially acceptable.
- johnarleyburns 16y agoYeah but when your startup isn't covering the bills and you're already eating and living cheap - what do you do?
- StavrosK 16y agoIf you think there's room for improvement, get consulting gigs. Otherwise, found a new startup.
- Swizec 16y agoThe most important job of your startup is to MAKE MONEY. So when there isn't money in the bank you go out and you MAKE SOME DAMN MONEY. If all else fails get an out-of-focus purely-for-money project. There's usually a lot of those lying about if you're willing to work on them. full disclosure: my startup has yet to pay bills, but we have a knack for getting government grants
- alex1 16y agoIf money is your sole motivator, I don't think you'll get very far, at least in the startup world. You should do what you love. Make peoples' lives easier. Financial gain is just a by-product. Go out and change the world, with a passion to change the world (rather than financial gain), and the rewards (whatever they may be, money or otherwise) will come.
- Swizec 16y agoYes, obviously. But a startup that can't pay the bills for itself and the people who work there will die even quicker.
- aneth 16y agoNo, it's __FUN__.
- darinpantley 16y agoAt the end of the day, a "true entrepreneur" is someone who builds a business.
- aneth 16y agoDid I miss how Python fits in here? Seems to be a rather large cognitive gap between the premise and the supporting argument. The commentary about the "true entrepreneur" has some interesting insights, although it seems a bit religious. We are all organic variable individuals, not Platonic types.
- flipp 16y agoPython was there for linkbait purposes and because it represents working on what you want to work on with what you want to work with.
- johnarleyburns 16y agoIt wasn't there for linkbait purposes, it was there because the startup my friend was considering which initiated this post is crazy about python, another startup in progress is all python-based, and python is always coming up in the discussion. If I wanted to linkbait I would have used a more popular language like Java.