Thanks for sharing.

When you started your business did you have another job and build your own business on the side? Or were you able to jump straight in?

I was doing some contract work on the side while building the MVP, but switched to full-time right after launching it. I wouldn't necessarily recommend that though.. basically burnt through all my savings over 4 months. Right as I was starting too look for more contract work I ended up winning a $15k grant from YC [0] which bridged the gap until I got to profitability. Now at around $6k - $10k/m (not recurring, so it varies).

[0] https://blog.ycombinator.com/announcing-the-startup-school-2...

So there wasn't 'mental polarisation' in society before computational models were created? Don't think that's correct..

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When the first thing someone asks is why isn't a collector cashing in they clearly don't understand what motivates a collector in the first place.

There's also a sort of survivor bias to it. If he were willing to cash in, then he wouldn't have a $10,000,000 collection and they wouldn't be writing a story on him

Full time job, and 1 - 2 side projects that never really get finished. My goal is to make something I can eventually turn into my own business, but I found my self encountering two main pieces of conflict: 1. None of the ideas are ever really good enough or directed enough towards a specific niche to be successful, and 2. I find I am usually happier when make myself take breaks instead of working on projects on the evenings and weekends, but I'm not sure how I can eventually have my own business if I don't.

I think the poster is making a comparison, and is therefor presumably male.

Yep, it would have made no sense otherwise.

But yes, to make it explicit, i'm the father.

We are on NH, so we can assume everyone's gender with reasonable accuracy...

But this type of assumption seems to have unforeseen consequences. We should question it.

Yeah all those beer drinking 12 y.o. boys should know better

It's official: hacker news has no sense of humor

I'm so cold