I am working full-time on my new thing. I had to take August off to take care of my firstborn. Then he had an ER visit followed by emergency surgery a few days

I am working full-time on my new thing. I had to take August off to take care of my firstborn. Then he had an ER visit followed by emergency surgery a few days ago. Now I'm about to dive back into the code. Trust me when I say that startups are not scary compared with your 3 week old baby going into lifesaving surgery :-) (He's recovering well. Fingers crossed.) I lived off a meager savings for my previous startup initially and raised angel money from a rich guy that I worked for in the past. It was me and my buddy in a room for 2 years. We had some success but not enough, so I had to go back to a high paying corporate job for a while. Big lessons were learned the hard way. At least: #5 and #8 and #10 and #11 and #12 and #14 http://www.paulgraham.com/startupmistakes.html http://www.paulgraham.com/startupmistakes.html But the big missing one there is: Not Having Guidance. It's very difficult to see you're making a fundamental mistake yourself. You really need outside expertise.