The Homeless Entrepreneur

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3 points·khaliqgant··3 comments

This is like an extreme way to make your startup work. Don't know but looks like too much. The question is : will you be worrying about your users, next feature, server load etc or where to find a friend's couch.

Anyway, its an interesting way to test the guts. Question to all hackers and entrepreneur: though it shows that the guy is determined to make his startup work, it can also be termed as foolish (in common default sense) - which way you go?

Blog post OP here:

Interesting points about the about the mental capital angle. I'd like to think I can just focus on my users, but the reality is that I'd probably be more focused on where'd I'd be sleeping that night.

I think you can make an argument that even jumping into a startup is common sense foolish - that is, you're risking way more than what is normal. What I've given up in opportunity costs in other careers is already huge - this just feels like another step. I've always tried to live by the "go big or go home" mantra. In this case, it's quite literal.

You are right will. In every sense of it. Anyone starting a startup would want to succeed. I will do this too. Its that, your post gives me a new level of extreme. Startups are hard, we get to hear the success stories all around. But your post was an exception and it gives real sense of what a founder goes through before he makes it.

Nice post.

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