We had a period of two years when I did not see my relatives and friends. I even forgot how they look like. Indeed I was dropped out of society, but it is one of the sacrifices you make if you want to achieve something, especially here in Silicon Valley where the competition is high. But then company started to grow, our schedule harmonized. Now we did not work 70–80 hours per week anymore.WhatsApp co-founder Jan Koum: “Most of startup ideas are absolutely stupid”
Patreon is still too new and too small to judge its total impact, its long-term prospects, or who it might end up appealing to. Because donations are recurring, it’s somewhat easier to project earnings for Patreon than for one-off crowdfunding sites, which has made it a safer bet for some investors.Inside Patreon, the economic engine of internet culture
The first step we took towards creating better estimates, was starting smaller. This doesn’t mean clients have to give up on their big, grand vision. It just means we break the project into the smallest pieces possible and focus on delivering faster.How we improved our engineering estimates by 1082%
With victory often comes complacency, and in Apple’s case, that complacency comes in the form of design without thought, a self-congratulatory sense of your gadget stores as “town squares,” and an increasing lack of concern for what is coming next. In technology, that next thing is always the one that breaks you.Apple is really bad at design
I can't say bootstrapping works for every business and startup, but if you can afford it for the first year or two I think it's a fantastic way to build something real, learn how to make money early, and start scaling. With the cost of technology going down, bootstrapping becomes easier and easier.Everyone wants to code, but not everyone knows how. Read how two co-founders built and grew a solution to this problem which now generates $100,000/mo.
