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The real cost of starting a startup?
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Re: The real cost of starting a startup?
#12Clearly there is an unspoken psychological cost, which is much, much harder to analyze.
Also: opportunity costs.
Re: The real cost of starting a startup?
#13The closing line "Dear Gabor, take note! Maybe starting a start-up isn't quite as impossible as they make it out to be" makes it seem like this is a revenge fantasy casting the recently departed VP Eng Gabor Cselle as a homeless person trying to get his new start-up off the ground. There may be considerably more bad blood around this departure than has come to light. Founders are best advised to avoid jokes or insults around departed employees no matter how they feel about their contribution or exit.
The "Going Bedouin" model has a much better outline in http://www.charterstreet.com/2006/02/going_bedouin.html
Re: The real cost of starting a startup?
#14The closing line "Dear Gabor, take note! Maybe starting a start-up isn't quite as impossible as they make it out to be" makes it seem like this is a revenge fantasy casting the recently departed VP Eng Gabor Cselle as a homeless person trying to get his new start-up off the ground. There may be considerably more bad blood around this departure than has come to light. Founders are best advised to avoid jokes or insult…
Actually, I'm not a founder, and Gabor's a friend of mine. He sits right across from me at work (he hasn't left yet).
He thought it was funny, since we often talk about how much people exaggerate the various barriers to building a successful startup. If anything, that line is meant to condemn any discouragement he faces.