Ask HN: Why do you want to start a startup?
I'm interning in a series-B San Francisco startup this summer, and probably more than half of the people I know - from multiple-exit CEOs to high school dropouts - are entrepreneurial in some way.
I'm vaguely interested myself in starting a startup, but I'm really wondering if I'm interested in it for the right reasons. Sure, for most people they usually fall into a very small set - getting rich, being famous, solving a niche problem, building the next big thing, making the world a better place - but I'm interested in everyone's story.
So... why do you want to start a startup?
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(Freedom) Working for others could be fine if you are key person, because others will listen for you, otherwise you are treated just yet another (hard) worker. You don't have freedom, that's fine in business, they understand their business well.
(Rich) Zuckerberg, Page, Brin, Ellison, Gates, Jobs, Jack Ma, you name it, all of them are founders, sure some others can get richer by joining later, but you should work really really hard in order to be a key person in a well established Corp.
(Risk) You might lose lots of things, not just money and founders love to take a risk, they are driven by adrenaline :)
(Passion) You are going to do things what you love, because that would be yours. when you don't have motivation you don't care and you will work, because that's yours. when you are tired, you take little rest and you will work again, because its yours. In hard days, you will find a way, because that's yours. But when you are working for someone, you don't always feel this, you might quit anytime, but when that's yours you are not going to quit easily ;)
I want to make people happier, that is my "why" and in every decision I make I investigate whether it makes me, an employee or a customer happier.
I dream of making every Maker and Manager out there a little bit happier and believe I have the tool in my TimeBlock method.
Skewness is what brings some toward riskier propositions, in hopes for a small chance of huge success. Those of us that start companies also don't like the middle of a probability distribution (i.e., predictable returns for a predictable amount of effort).