Top Ten indicators you've just founded a startup company
1. Your spouse's ulcer has started up again
2. Your average night's sleep is about 4 hours
3. You keep a notebook beside your bed to jot down all of those ideas that are keeping you up at night
4. All of your breakfasts and lunches are taken up with "networking"
5. When someone asks you a question that isn't about your new company, you respond with, "huh?"
6. You begin to scrutinize *every* work expense to keep "burn" down
7. You begin to categorize *every* personal expense as luxury or necessity
8. A cap table is not a place to put your hat
9. Friends and family with money begin avoiding you (j/k)
10. You feel incredibly alive!
By Tim Wolters, who blogs about the entire process of starting a company.
http://timwolters.blogspot.com/2005/04/top-ten-indicators-youve-just-founded.html
I thought some points were too true.
1. Your spouse's ulcer has started up again
2. Your average night's sleep is about 4 hours
3. You keep a notebook beside your bed to jot down all of those ideas that are keeping you up at night
4. All of your breakfasts and lunches are taken up with "networking"
5. When someone asks you a question that isn't about your new company, you respond with, "huh?"
6. You begin to scrutinize *every* work expense to keep "burn" down
7. You begin to categorize *every* personal expense as luxury or necessity
8. A cap table is not a place to put your hat
9. Friends and family with money begin avoiding you (j/k)
10. You feel incredibly alive!
By Tim Wolters, who blogs about the entire process of starting a company.
http://timwolters.blogspot.com/2005/04/top-ten-indicators-youve-just-founded.html
I thought some points were too true.
Running a business does make you feel pretty darn good at times....but sometimes really awful!