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What do you think of this bit? In "Why not to start a startup" http://paulgraham.com/notnot.html http://paulgraham.com/notnot.html "9. Family to support" "T
by geebee 12y ago
What do you think of this bit?
In "Why not to start a startup"
http://paulgraham.com/notnot.html http://paulgraham.com/notnot.html
"9. Family to support"
"This one is real. I wouldn't advise anyone with a family to start a startup. I'm not saying it's a bad idea, just that I don't want to take responsibility for advising it. I'm willing to take responsibility for telling 22 year olds to start startups. So what if they fail? They'll learn a lot, and that job at Microsoft will still be waiting for them if they need it. But I'm not prepared to cross moms."
Can you see how a statement like this might make people with kids more reluctant to apply to YC?