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Jesse, I completely feel your pain. I moved up to San Francisco the previous June with the grand vision of building out my team, raising a round of investment and building my PaaS for hosting node.js apps (NodeSocket) to something really special. I left a cushy director level job in San Diego and left a core group of good friends as well. I simply packed up everything in my car and made the drive up. The first couple…
Jesse, I completely feel your pain. I moved up to San Francisco the previous June with the grand vision of building out my team, raising a round of investment and building my PaaS for hosting node.js apps (NodeSocket) to something really special. I left a cushy director level job in San Diego and left a core group of good friends as well. I simply packed up everything in my car and made the drive up. The first couple…
You should come back to San Diego and work with me on Fused ;)
Bah Humbug (please excuse me, it's just a seasonal expression). While I can feel your pain, this story has nothing to do with SV - it's the story of an entrepreneur. The same story exists in every state in the U.S. and every major city (and most small ones) in the world. Entrepreneurship is very hard. I'm 41 y/o and bootstrapped my first internet company at 24. I owned a nice home, a beautiful vacation (lake) home, a…
>I owned a nice home, a beautiful vacation (lake) home, a big office building, 2 Mercedes Benz (wife's SUV, my car) [. . .] It all went away (except for my primary home) by the time I was 35. One lesson here might be to not buy the fancy, expensive stuff and the lifestyle that goes with it. I bet things would've been a lot smoother with fewer gee-gaws and more cash in the bank.
I really wish there was a way to: (a) have the autonomy and interesting work of a startup tech founder (while a full-time technologist, not a manager) but (b) without the extreme income variance. If your job requires you to take personal loans, there's something wrong. I also think there are a lot of people who have the talent but not the ability to afford the risk. The extreme income variance is a bug, not a feature…
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You should come back to San Diego and work with me on Fused ;)
Humm web hosting. Do you have physical servers in colo, or are re-selling an existing provider such as AWS, Rackspace, Softlayer?
~1,700 odd clients and growing :)
It'd be great if the author wrote about something specific . This article contains little detail about anything that actually happened.
Agreed. I read this: > What Hacker News doesn't prepare you for, however, is when a competitor gets acquired for a billion dollars, work-life imbalance, and getting dumped by your World of Warcraft girlfriend. and was pretty interested. It sounds like the start of two pretty interesting stories. Instead of actually telling these stories, however, the post descended into platitudes. I'm beginning to feel that I should…
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Humm web hosting. Do you have physical servers in colo, or are re-selling an existing provider such as AWS, Rackspace, Softlayer?
Physical, our own colo-space thusfar. Though moving large chunks/features to AWS & distributing things more heavily moving forward: isn't all that cost-effective to build out our own CDN vs piggy-backing. ~1,700 odd clients and growing :)
I really wish there was a way to: (a) have the autonomy and interesting work of a startup tech founder (while a full-time technologist, not a manager) but (b) without the extreme income variance. If your job requires you to take personal loans, there's something wrong. I also think there are a lot of people who have the talent but not the ability to afford the risk. The extreme income variance is a bug, not a feature…
you are looking for a rose without the thorns:) you'd be better off with a lily ( ie. straight job at big-co/small-co, no income variance )
It's not that I want zero income variance. How many people would want to live in that world? I don't. It's that I'd be willing to give up the upside over $50 million in exchange to never have to worry about being unable to support a family.
There has to be a way to structure that kind of insurance plan without requiring a compromise of autonomy.
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Humm web hosting. Do you have physical servers in colo, or are re-selling an existing provider such as AWS, Rackspace, Softlayer?
Physical, our own colo-space thusfar. Though moving large chunks/features to AWS & distributing things more heavily moving forward: isn't all that cost-effective to build out our own CDN vs piggy-backing. ~1,700 odd clients and growing :)