Bootstrapping solo founder here. It's kind of overwhelming if all you do needs to be valued at $1000/hour. It sounds more like it could be used as an excuse not

Bootstrapping solo founder here. It's kind of overwhelming if all you do needs to be valued at $1000/hour. It sounds more like it could be used as an excuse not to do anything: "I can't figure something I can do that would be valued $1000/hour" => better to keep going at the current job. I've been doing the startup thing for 5 months now, but as it's my first experiment, I don't think I've created $1000/hour stuff so far. Still, I don't see it as a problem. The idea is to value your time, yes, but you should also value intangible things like what you're learning doing this startup for example (which give you an edge for this one or the next startup).