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whenever you have the choice between worrying about what will happen, applying to a program, preparing a presentation, or making progress on your product… alway
by jlees 18y ago
whenever you have the choice between worrying about what will happen, applying to a program, preparing a presentation, or making progress on your product… always choose the latter. Keep coding. Ignore the distractions. You’ll end up ahead.
You've got to eat somehow. Not everyone's lucky enough to have the resources to code in isolation for months without thinking about business development. Plus when you finish coding and have to present, you've missed out on valuable practice opportunities ;)
- alain94040 18y agoDoes the $15K help you eat for any significant amount of time? Let's say t will take a year for your startup to take off or make it to a funding event. For 3 people, you'd be splitting $415/month. Some people can make that kind of income with one day of IT consulting, so there are workarounds to getting into YC. Again, don't get me wrong: if you are accepted, by all means take the offer!
- jlees 18y agoI didn't really just mean YC's money, more the unfeasability of ignoring all concerns but the code. Obviously some people (the IT consultant you mention, or those laid off with a nice severance, etc) don't really have their empty fridges as so much of a motivation ;) I wouldn't really expect a startup to operate on $15k for a year; the whole point is you use it as a springboard for further funding, surely?