"@shayan: My team and I have 6 months of savings, meaning we can pay the bills for 6 months before we either need income or investment. Do you think that is lon

"@shayan: My team and I have 6 months of savings, meaning we can pay the bills for 6 months before we either need income or investment. Do you think that is long enough?" I'm not @shayan, but I'll put in my 2cents: no. It's not enough. Given the current economic conditions and the realities of startups you should have more like 18 to 24 months worth of expenses saved up. Because: 1) you don't want to have to go hat in hand to VC at a very vulnerable time and 2) you don't want to have to go back to work in the middle of your development cycle because you ran out of money. Yes, you may think it'll only take six months till you get some cashflow, but it'll likely take longer than that. Now is as good a time as any to do a startup, but do make sure you're adequately capitalized.