Evernote CEO to entrepreneurs: "don't do it"

Re:Evernote CEO to entrepreneurs: "don't do it" by moocow01 on Friday April 27, 2012 @05:36PM (#3901119)

Its also very unlikely you'll stumble into a windfall founding or working for a startup. Its something some may not want to hear but from a purely financial perspective of startup vs corp, 99% of cases it is always going to be financially better to work for a corp.

If you're working for a startup hopefully you are doing it for better reasons.

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Re:Evernote CEO to entrepreneurs: "don't do it" by lusr on Friday April 27, 2012 @06:18PM (#3901266)

There's nothing stopping you from hedging your bets. I work full-time and put away 60%+ of it. This is capital for whatever investments I make, including into my own startup that I work on when I get home. Fact is I get paid what I do by the corp because I'm worth at least that much. As a single, unmarried software developer there's nothing stopping me from exploiting my value generating capabilities directly, so not attempting a startup is nonsensical IMO.

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