The Dark Side of Entrepreneurship

Re:The Dark Side of Entrepreneurship by MicahWedemeyer on Thursday July 09, 2009 @09:59AM (#695859)

Very true. We constantly hear the "I woke up rich the very next day!" type stories, and it skews the perception of what running a business is like.

I have a lot of sympathy for old-school businesses that need a lot of operating capital. Putting your house in danger to support your business is a choice I hope I never have to make. In my case, that would essentially be the same as putting my marriage on the line.

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Re:The Dark Side of Entrepreneurship by rjurney on Thursday July 09, 2009 @10:45AM (#695961)

Interesting quote I heard last week, from Stephen Fleming, successful VC and now Vice Provost of Georgia Tech. It was something like, "I've never seen a married founder bootstrap a company to a large exit and had the marriage survive."

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Re:The Dark Side of Entrepreneurship by skmurphy on Thursday July 09, 2009 @11:22PM (#697053)

I think it depends upon what value of large. One counter-example: Greg Gianforte bootstrapped RightNow technologies to 100M in revenue, still runs the company, and is still married. Two others would be Bill Hewlett and David Packard.

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Re:The Dark Side of Entrepreneurship by rjurney on Friday July 10, 2009 @08:53PM (#698674)

Its not that there aren't outliers. Its that bootstrapped divorce is very common - maybe more common than not.

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