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The main problem I have with this is that it would put so much pressure on your startup. You need to be built to resist failure, and if you've literally invested everything, you're in for a hard time.

Not to say that you shouldn't invest almost everything, and this is a cool hack, but it's not sustainable, at least emotionally.

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I'm sorry, but describing homelessness as "a cool hack" is pretty twisted.

Go get to know real homeless people, we are not talking about homelessness here. Though I think the OP is taking it a bit far, I think it would be fine to do it for a week or something if you opened up a huge opportunity for you.

There are a lot of people that I suspect you would consider "real" homeless that live out of their cars.

The main difference here is that I assume he is making decent money. More than you would expect of someone that is "really" homeless anyway.

You can be house-full and yet still homeless. Dwellings are becoming more and more just that, it seems. Not a "home". Not a Fortress of Solitude, if you will.

So why keep up the charade if you're out of the weather anyway?

> I'm sorry, but

Are you? Are you really sorry?

There's a saying. Anything which was said before a but doesn't really count. I think this guy has a point.

I don't think in that context it represents an apology or even empathy. It means "allow me to politely tell you that you are full of shit!"

Kinda like saying "have a nice day" to somebody who was just rude to you.

I don't feel like there's that much pressure on the startup, I'm just concentrating full-time on it for a while. If I run out of savings I'll pick up some freelance stuff and keep working on it, just not full-time. I guess it all depends on your unique circumstances.

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