Investors have a lot of investments, but entrepreneurs have only one life
June 17, 2016
Recently, I've been talking to many people about possible projects and jobs. They are distressed when I tell them my hourly rate. They respond... so consider that you're hardly making anything now, wouldn't a lower rate be better than nothing??? Uh, no. (Explained below.)
VentureBeat: Why I turned down 500k, pissed off my investors and shut down my startup, 2016-Jun-9 by Tim Romero
I am not particularly risk-averse, but I pay attention to risk and reward. As an investor, I probably would have told me to take the money and try to make it work. But the risk-reward equation for investors is different than it is for founders.
I was deciding whether this venture was worth committing to another year of 70+ hour weeks. I need a higher level of certainty than investors do because my time is more valuable to me than their money is to them. Investors place bets in a portfolio of companies, but I only have one life.
Thinking of you, Orlando...