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They should put this much hustle into the business for the sake of the business, every week. Not just one weekend for YC.
by paulsutter 7y ago
They should put this much hustle into the business for the sake of the business, every week. Not just one weekend for YC.
- jvagner 7y agoMaybe they do. This narrative doesn't indicate they don't.
- jolmg 7y agoBesides the point that the article doesn't indicate they don't, that amount of hustle might not be maintainable in the long run.
- cbetti 7y agoStarting a business gives you a broad enough diversity of things to do that you can sustain 90 hours per week dedicated to the effort for a long, long time. Coding burnout? Refine your pitch deck and cold call materials. Designing burnout? Pick up the phone and sell. Isolation burnout? Go pitch at a local pitch event or find advisors at a business plan competition. When you switch focus like this, you free up exhausted parts of your brain and body to give them a chance to recover without disconnecting from your startup, and you get a cross-pollination effect, where each of these activities informs one another very nicely.