Drug and alcohol.dependency are the things you need to worry about, not mental illness. http://research.bmh.manchester.ac.uk/cmhs/research/centrefor... Page 5: > xx. In all four UK countries, most patients convicted of homicide also have a history of alcohol or drug misuse, between 88% in England and 100% in N Ireland. In other words it is unusual for mental health patients to commit homicide unless there is a coexis…
There is a strong correlation between mental illness and substance abuse. https://www.drugabuse.gov/publications/research-reports/como...
But it's the drug and alcohol misuse which predicts violence, not the mental illness.
There is a strong correlation between mental illness and substance abuse. https://www.drugabuse.gov/publications/research-reports/como...
But it's the drug and alcohol misuse which predicts violence, not the mental illness.
I don't think it is so clear cut, there are certainly violent mentally ill people who don't use substances. Alternatively there are addicts who are very kind.
From the blog post: >I define startups as companies that don’t have control of their own destiny because they rely on investor cash infusions to operate. When asked, “How’s business?”, I always replied “I don’t have a business yet, we’re still a startup.” I despise this definition. I have grown my hardware startup sustainably while pursuing an engineering degree and maintaining full control of the company. I may soon…
> I have grown my hardware startup sustainably while pursuing an engineering degree and maintaining full control of the company. Can I ask how you had time? And what was your source of income and funding while you were doing that? And engineering degree alone is a huge workload, no?
I found time by picking something I enjoyed doing - turning my hobby into something more, and occupying that time plus some more. And then honestly I prioritize it over getting great grades in my classes, because even if it fails I'll still get a lot more out of the experience (personally) than sitting in a lecture or checking over the answers of a problem set.
I bootstrapped with about $3000 of savings, and run a lab at school that's a bit of extra income. Pick the right market and be smart with your suppliers and revenue can start coming in pretty quick.
But you're right, time is the big thing stopping me from growing faster... I worked full time last summer and that pretty much stopped me from doing new R&D work, this summer I'm going to be working on the business full time, we'll see how it goes!
From the blog post: >I define startups as companies that don’t have control of their own destiny because they rely on investor cash infusions to operate. When asked, “How’s business?”, I always replied “I don’t have a business yet, we’re still a startup.” I despise this definition. I have grown my hardware startup sustainably while pursuing an engineering degree and maintaining full control of the company. I may soon…
Why is what you have not a "small business?" Is that phrase just not sexy enough? Being a stable bootstrapped small business is more worthy of respect than being an unstable underfunded startup, in my opinion.
Late response, but I often times do use the term small business when talking to people about it. But it's also a startup, which is why I responded so strongly to that bit of the blog post.