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There is a way to see it as different. Ideally people like entrepreneurship because you succeed or fail because your idea and execution meet the market's needs.
by rz2k 11y ago
There is a way to see it as different. Ideally people like entrepreneurship because you succeed or fail because your idea and execution meet the market's needs. That's better than getting paid on the basis of your own effort or discomfort involved in doing the work necessary to complete it.
Certainly, the market is fickle, but that is different than something political that is going on where you have no influence. It is completely conceivable that you optimized such that your product generated revenue far in excess of its costs, but that it is canceled for a (good) strategic reason.
Sure the difference is probably only psycholgical, but finding out that work you cared about was only a waste of time somehow feels more just if there was no market for it than if it had traction and the was shuttered for a reason you don't know.
- amirmc 11y agoThe very important difference is that at a job you get paid regardless. You can even shift your mental model such that "it's just a job" and start leaving the crap 'at work'. In a startup (esp if it's your own), the psychological and emotional stakes are significantly higher. Also, there's no reason that politics can't find their way into a startup you're running. You just might not notice it because you've positioned yourself at the top of the tree of monkeys.