I don't have a start up (yet...), but my mother, who is in her late 60's, is several years into a medical practices "start up" has really started to take off. (While remaining intentionally vague, I'll add that, no, she's not a doctor.) She and her partners have been taking on a lot of new (for them) business practices and demands -- online presence, politics, real estate purchase, etc. I've found her running problems and ideas by me, more and more. It seems that all the time I've spent particularly here as well as some other places on line -- and in the world of work outside of the medical field -- has provided me some perspective and ideas that work well for her. She takes them and considers them for herself, of course, but they give her options to consider.

So, even if you aren't currently in a start up, this place may be having more of an effect than you realize.

Thanks, HN! :-)

P.S. And you never know when that opportunity may arise.

Actually, one of her "regular job" environments was changing due to funding and politics, and she was lamenting this and speculating about starting up a private practice partnership in a year or two. I was the one who suggested, strongly, "do it now", before the top notch people being affected found other options and became too tied down consider her idea.

That same lunch, we walked by a medical practices building having sign advertising space to let. Three months or so later, it was theirs.