"it's becoming cheaper to start a startup, and startups are becoming a more normal thing to do"
You can now start a company with a few hundred dollars. All that's left is food and rent. This is the first time in history when this has been possible.
You can now start a company with a few hundred dollars. All that's left is food and rent. This is the first time in history when this has been possible.
We have a large house in SF and rent our extra rooms on Airbnb. This covers rent + food. We have yet to take any external funding.
That's overstating it a bit. Plenty of '80s software companies were bootstrapped for the cost of food+rent+computer, with shareware demos distributed via BBS.