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Re:Ask YC: How to start becoming an entrepreneur while still... by wallflower on Friday February 29, 2008 @06:29PM (#126408)
Like drunk dialing, sometimes sending embarassing emails help remind you that you've improved.

When did you reach the tipping point (was it a group or individual decision) with Tipjoy?

The best quote about focus that I've ever heard: A 100 watt lightbulb can light up a room but that same energy focused in a laser apparatus can cut through steel.

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Re:Ask YC: How to start becoming an entrepreneur while still... by ivankirigin on Friday February 29, 2008 @10:58PM (#126544)
Talking about Tipjoy is what made my cofounder (also my wife) and I decide to go for it. She was at iRobot. I was at Nokia. Both of us had excellent jobs.

The clincher that made us quit was when it became perfectly clear that those jobs, or their equivalent, are readily available should we fail. If the worst, worst case scenario is the status quo, why not go for it?

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