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I feel like I am reading an article from someone who never has run their own business. You start a tech company because you want to do something new, not to get
by Jhsto 8y ago
I feel like I am reading an article from someone who never has run their own business. You start a tech company because you want to do something new, not to get rich.
Further, I don't think it's that uncommon for entrepreneurs to see the employer-employee relations as the following:
- being an employer is a status in which you take risks
- being an employee is a status in which you avoid risks
Blaming the other for their current status is dumb, regardless of on which side you are.
- huffmsa 8y agoI guess he doesn't considered running a blog entrepreneurial?
- jampekka 8y agoDefinition of entrepreneurship in English: The activity of setting up a business or businesses, taking on financial risks in the hope of profit. https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/entrepreneurship https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/entrepreneurshi...
- droithomme 8y agoIs it your belief that it is better to make a loss rather than make a profit in return for one's labor? Do you consider making a profit as opposed to making a loss to be equivalent with "getting rich"? Do people have a right to be paid for their work that benefits others?
- sundaeofshock 8y ago“being an employee is a status in which you avoid risks” I think people working for equity as part of their compensation would disagree with you.
- JohnFen 8y agoMany, yes, but not all. Personally, when I've been (as I am now) an employee that has received equity as part of my compensation, the fact that I'm receiving equity doesn't make me feel that I'm taking a risk. In terms of my daily thinking, I don't even count the equity position at all -- at best, it's pure gravy. The only thing I really count is the actual money I'm paid.
- veryworried 8y agoStarting a tech company because you want to get rich is a fine reason to do so, it just shouldn’t be the only reason. When you have a goal of actually making good money it will force you to build a successful company on purpose from the ground up, not by “accident” (i.e making a simple product or app to fulfill some need and then it just happens to spread virally and become a huge success).
- gumby 8y ago> You start a tech company because you want to do something new, not to get rich. Unfortunately starting around the first Internet boom a ton of people showed up here feeling differently and it really fucked things up.