Great comment! Often I'll read "start-upy" articles about starting ventures and the flip kind of attitude towards guidelines like "and now it's time to ask frie

Great comment! Often I'll read "start-upy" articles about starting ventures and the flip kind of attitude towards guidelines like "and now it's time to ask friends and family for funding!" I can't fathom, nor do I know many people who I would consider sane, who would take money from their friends or family to start the kinds of businesses that are discussed on HN. If you end up with the next Google, then I guess it's all gravy but since insider giants like pg himself are constantly talking about the ridiculous odds startups face, you could literally destroy lives doing this. But, I never considered that this viewpoint was a hallmark of the middle class. It never struck me that these people were never actually talking to me, but maybe to a different, more affluent class of people, in a very specific part of the world.