It's much easier to do a startup if you've saved up a war chest :) Or if your operating expenses are so low that you can sustain yourself long enough to see th

It's much easier to do a startup if you've saved up a war chest :) Or if your operating expenses are so low that you can sustain yourself long enough to see the business flourish. Ironically, the various funds of Nassim Taleb suffer the same problem: collapsing because they could not survive to the moment when their strategies would be profitable.