I haven't been on in a while, but I wanted to share this with people. Paul Graham's incubator, Y Combinator, is running a free 10-week course on the pragmatics of running a start up. It's called Start Up School, and it's located at Startup School. One of thing I found interesting in the first week's lesson was the financial breakdown of creating a startup versus becoming a late stage employee. The takeaway is that if you're looking to get rich and have control over your life, creating your own business is actually less efficient than joining a late stage startup and 10X'ing it. The key reason to create your own company is because it's something you have to do, something you'll regret not doing later in life.
This is aimed at tech startups, but it's definitely food for thought.
This is aimed at tech startups, but it's definitely food for thought.
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