Quote: (04-04-2013 03:02 AM)malc Wrote:
I've found that working a job, you max out to a certain level with certain kinds of work and positions. I'd rather take a foundational job that would require 35hrs of work a week with cushy benefits and then work another 20hrs a week contracting at $XXXX billable days (you'll get 10 billable days a month) doing contract consulting work in varied and interesting things. You don't get stale working with the same stuff in one company with you contracting work and doing that keeps you sharp. Also opens doors to getting into new firms at the ground floor.
This is the best way to do things:
1. Start a company.
2. Be lean for max of 1yr or until you get dat venture capital.
3. Pay yourself fairly quickly what you would of been paid at Google Goldman Sachs anyway.
4. Be a CEO/Founder.
5. Make out like gangbusters on acquisition or even better, IPO. If your startup ultimately fails in the end, then oh well you still made what you would of made at a larger company.
That's like saying "this is the best way to do things:
1. Be like six foot nine
2. Get with Leoshi, cause yo she's really fine."
Look, I get it. It's great to have ideas and dream big. But the meme that startups have an easy time getting VC funding, even now as VC cash is flying around, is ludicrous. Most people just don't have the creativity and initiative to start a successful entrepreneurial business, and a big chunk of those who do end up getting robbed blind by venture capitalists instead of nurtured by them.
I know this is the RVF, where, like some online Lake Wobegon, we're all 6'2" jacked alphas with dicks like prehensile elephant trunks and devoted soft harems consisting of dime pieces from every continent.
Truth be told, the average denizen here has a much greater shot of being an entrepreneurial success than normal folks. This pervasive message, however, of "just do startup, bro," is equally as asinine to a generation in dire need of economic equity as the corresponding education push that preceded it.