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Past a few years in the industry, you can have brilliant friends who are all in more or less okay jobs but are very risk-averse, either because of their situati

Past a few years in the industry, you can have brilliant friends who are all in more or less okay jobs but are very risk-averse, either because of their situation or simply because of it's too much effort without a guarantee. There's a reason there are founders networks, it might be hard to find entrepreneurial-minded people around. So, there's a (slim) chance. That said, it's certainly a good approach to ask that question in earnest early on.

brudgers 4y ago
[caveat: the founders network context falls outside my idea of “people I don’t know” because being in the network would puy the other person in my network. Basically it is what I signed up for. YMMV.] In the ordinary circumstance, I come back to “why me?” because the “secure job,” etc. still means people who know the entrepreneur much better than me don’t trust them enough to go into business with them and it means the entrepreneur can’t convince those people. But it also means the entrepreneur sees me as their best option…and why that would be the case is really worth thinking through unwishfully…the article touches on why.