It just seems like there are probably enough of us who do thrive in the early-stage startup atmosphere that someone could make good money targeting that niche w

It just seems like there are probably enough of us who do thrive in the early-stage startup atmosphere that someone could make good money targeting that niche with advice. We're different enough to be a subculture, but we're still working within a lot of the constraints of systems that weren't actually designed for people like us. For example, I've searched for but never been able to find actual advice about how to think about private company stock options. Everybody ends up writing them off with a, "Well, there's a decent chance they won't be worth anything, so just ignore them and try to operate within the world we do understand." Nobody quantifies the risk. Nobody talks about how to hedge against it prudently. Nobody talks about what to do when the piddly little number of shares the company tossed you as a customer support agent are suddenly worth half a million dollars and are a life-changing amount of money, never mind what to do if you had a real stake. Nobody talks about how to evaluate which early companies do have a strong shot at "making it" and which ones are doomed. It's not impossible to think these things through and evaluate them. It's just hard, and not mainstream. For those of us for whom "instability" is a feature, not a bug, advice from someone who gets that and thinks it through would be infinitely more valuable than advice from the hordes who tell us we should just try to be different.