Ask HN: How Much Money is Enough... What's your Number?

Re:Ask HN: How Much Money is Enough... What's your Number? by alaskamiller on Sunday August 09, 2009 @08:52PM (#751635)

Enough for a house, a car, and some leftover to take care of my family. Everything after that I think is just greed. With those needs taken care of you have all the time in the world to work on another hit.

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Re:Ask HN: How Much Money is Enough... What's your Number? by elsewhen on Sunday August 09, 2009 @09:24PM (#751672)

Really? So if you were working on a successful startup, you would sell right when you reached the point that the net proceeds of a sale reached say, $1M?

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Re:Ask HN: How Much Money is Enough... What's your Number? by lyime on Sunday August 09, 2009 @10:10PM (#751733)

Greed is relative.

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Re:Ask HN: How Much Money is Enough... What's your Number? by bmelton on Sunday August 09, 2009 @08:54PM (#751639)

Except that you have to buy gas, pay property taxes, eat, drink and pay for entertainment. I get your point, for sure, but surely you want something in the bank to either help fund your next gig, or to buy yourself more time in case it takes a few more tries than 1?

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