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Re:Just Manic Enough, Seeking Perfect Entrepreneurs by TamDenholm on Saturday September 18, 2010 @08:58PM (#1705317)
I think that this highlights (perhaps an extreme example of) what is expected by founders. To be workaholics, sacrifice social life, home life, hobbies etc in order to build their companies.

While it's obvious that a lot of people do this and succeed it's not something that I'm sure other people want to do, it's certainly not something that I want to do. While others may see this of lack of commitment and consider me a non-serious business person, I don't.

I want to build a successful business that makes all the other stuff in my life better, more resources, more fun, more people to meet etc, but maybe that makes me a bad investment to VCs.

Re:Just Manic Enough, Seeking Perfect Entrepreneurs by qq66 on Saturday September 18, 2010 @10:27PM (#1705447)
It's a little strange to see social-networking startups founded by people who seem to have relatively little interest in social life (including the 800-lb gorilla in the market).
Re:Just Manic Enough, Seeking Perfect Entrepreneurs by nostrademons on Sunday September 19, 2010 @01:06AM (#1705620)
It probably makes more sense if you think of people as the product being sold and not as the customers being sold to. Then again, I'm not sure that the people involved would like to be thought of in that way...