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That is completely incorrect. David (the CEO) was one of the original cofounders from the spring of 2012, before they got into TechStars. He came up with the idea from seeing all of the companies in TechStars go through the same challenges and decided to do something about it. Kelly joined him before TechStars started. Don't spread misinformation.
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That is completely incorrect. David (the CEO) was one of the original cofounders from the spring of 2012, before they got into TechStars. He came up with the idea from seeing all of the companies in TechStars go through the same challenges and decided to do something about it. Kelly joined him before TechStars started. Don't spread misinformation.
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He continues to mentor for techstars while also being the CEO of PivotDesk
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"The constant pitching, the t-shirt wardrobe peppered with company logos and talking about the business at every holiday, lunch with friends or phone call with Mom really adds up. It’s what you live and breathe as a startup founder and I wouldn’t have had it any other way." These should be huge red flags. The author describes thinking about nothing but work for three years, then reproaches himself for... not having s…
Recall what Paul Graham wrote: "Economically, you can think of a startup as a way to compress your whole working life into a few years. Instead of working at a low intensity for forty years, you work as hard as you possibly can for four. This pays especially well in technology, where you earn a premium for working fast... Remember what a startup is, economically: a way of saying, I want to work faster. Instead of acc…
"The constant pitching, the t-shirt wardrobe peppered with company logos and talking about the business at every holiday, lunch with friends or phone call with Mom really adds up. It’s what you live and breathe as a startup founder and I wouldn’t have had it any other way." These should be huge red flags. The author describes thinking about nothing but work for three years, then reproaches himself for... not having s…
Recall what Paul Graham wrote: "Economically, you can think of a startup as a way to compress your whole working life into a few years. Instead of working at a low intensity for forty years, you work as hard as you possibly can for four. This pays especially well in technology, where you earn a premium for working fast... Remember what a startup is, economically: a way of saying, I want to work faster. Instead of acc…
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Recall what Paul Graham wrote: "Economically, you can think of a startup as a way to compress your whole working life into a few years. Instead of working at a low intensity for forty years, you work as hard as you possibly can for four. This pays especially well in technology, where you earn a premium for working fast... Remember what a startup is, economically: a way of saying, I want to work faster. Instead of acc…
Paul Graham is a very smart dude, and I love his essays a lot, but the way you talk about him "Recall what Paul Graham wrote:" sounds like you are quoting the bible. Believe it our not, Paul Graham is not always right, and it is entirely possible to be too intense.
"The constant pitching, the t-shirt wardrobe peppered with company logos and talking about the business at every holiday, lunch with friends or phone call with Mom really adds up. It’s what you live and breathe as a startup founder and I wouldn’t have had it any other way." These should be huge red flags. The author describes thinking about nothing but work for three years, then reproaches himself for... not having s…
Recall what Paul Graham wrote: "Economically, you can think of a startup as a way to compress your whole working life into a few years. Instead of working at a low intensity for forty years, you work as hard as you possibly can for four. This pays especially well in technology, where you earn a premium for working fast... Remember what a startup is, economically: a way of saying, I want to work faster. Instead of acc…
Even if you care about nothing whatsoever except your job (which probably isn't - and certainly shouldn't be - the case) there is an optimal level of effort that delivers peak sustainable output, and for tasks with a significant intellectual component, the available data says that optimal level is about thirty or forty hours a week. Beyond that, sure, you'll get more done in the first week, but chronic fatigue will quickly build up, reducing your effectiveness to the point where you're actually getting less done than you would have in a thirty-hour week.
Worse, chronic fatigue is like being drunk: it impairs your judgment to the point where you can't tell how impaired your judgment is. You feel like a hero, when your actual performance is more akin to someone coming in to work drunk every day.
That doesn't mean you shouldn't do a startup, if that's what you think is your best option. It does mean if you're going to, you should do it in the understanding that it is not actually a get-rich-quick scheme, and it doesn't suspend the normal laws of human biology and psychology.
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Recall what Paul Graham wrote: "Economically, you can think of a startup as a way to compress your whole working life into a few years. Instead of working at a low intensity for forty years, you work as hard as you possibly can for four. This pays especially well in technology, where you earn a premium for working fast... Remember what a startup is, economically: a way of saying, I want to work faster. Instead of acc…
Paul Graham's essays contain much wisdom and truth, but even Homer nods, and let's be honest, the paragraph you quoted is bullshit. Even if you care about nothing whatsoever except your job (which probably isn't - and certainly shouldn't be - the case) there is an optimal level of effort that delivers peak sustainable output, and for tasks with a significant intellectual component, the available data says that optima…