I’ve heard many stories of founders going through tough times, lack of salary, constant pressure from investors. Lot of hype around starting up but maybe a stable job is better?
Startup —> high risk, high reward
Job —> medium risk(now), medium reward (if you are good)/ low reward (if you’re average)
Choose yourself.
Good explanation but there are more factors at play.
Even average founders do well in great markets. If you can time market cycles well, you're golden.
If things pan out you might have a flat in worli in a couple of years. If things dont pan out you can still have that worli flat in your dreams. You decide
The first huddle is getting off the addiction and safety net of a salary. Create a corpus which allows you to sustain for a year or two without any salary.
If you really want to do it, every challenge will seem acceptable else it will seem like a blocker. Working at an early stage startup is good way to figure out if you are ready for it.
Im currently working at McKinsey and want to understand if working at a startup in a strategy.growth role is better. What are the factors i should be thinking about before making the switch?
I recently worked at a startup and it was terrible.
To be honest, I still worked at one of the better ones but it just sucked.
Some of the clear downsides I see
Much of the upsides people mention do not exist ot matter as much 1. Financial wealth building - VCs inve...
I could relate to this post. Working at an extremely profitable startup. My experience has been a hit and miss...
Experiences vary from people to people. It seems you ended up at a place where there was no direction.
I understand if someone is asking this question, the person isn't ready. But would like to know from founders, what was your motivation ? What pushed you over from a 9-5? Is it just taking a bet on yourself and working towards solving th...
