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Amen.

I think your story is important and why I think we should be pushing people more to this sort of arrangement.

Even VCs will never give you a penny without first quitting your job, but honestly some of the seed stuff I don’t see why one couldn’t do both if there is promise.

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Speaking of VCs, part of not knowing what I was doing before I quit my job was not understanding how VCs worked, and how much evidence they need before investing. They spend a lot more money on companies that have $1M/month income than on seeding unknown first timers, even seed funds. There are too many misleading stories of cash being thrown at startups with nothing more than an idea. Maybe it happens once or twice in a blue moon, but the reality is that they prefer a sure thing and don’t often fund companies with no traction. It took a lot longer to raise money than we expected, even after we had what we thought seemed like good traction. And when it takes longer to raise, it means you need a longer runway. It took longer to build than we thought too. I was very lucky to have a couple years’ runway, and it still wasn’t nearly enough, I should have planned on 3 or 4 times as long.

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