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How to Survive Being Founder Broke

• twog 13y ago
  This is great advice. One point I like to make to early founders is eating cheap doesnt mean eating poorly. Learn to make a few meals & just stock up. Chili, pasta, egg salad, etc. are all healthy choices that reheat well & can be made in large quantities for the week.
  • haney 13y ago
    I lived for months on food from a croc pot, I ate better, lost weight and saved buckets of cash not eating out. Chili is a god sent for poor cofounders.
  • chiph 13y ago
    Some of the Hamburger Helper skillet meals can be pretty good, if spiced up some.
• segmondy 13y ago
  Basically it boils down to being frugal. Any startup must learn to be frugal and resourceful. Period. My laptop is a thinkpad t41, made in 2003. I get more done with it than most people do with their laptops, and I bought it 3 years ago for $100. I choose not to upgrade because I don't need to. If you are doing something resource intensive like multi media editing or developing video games I can understand having the latest toys. Writing software? An older hardware is good. So what compiler time might be a bit slow. Gives you more time to think. For those who are not frugal, checkout r/Frugal on reddit.