Holding Me Back

After reading my late-night/morning round of e-mail, I went online and read a post listing five reasons to create a startup now. I’ve read tons of these, especially with all the Web 2.0 buzz flying around, which peaked just as I was graduating. And while every entrepreneurship blog post, news article, website, and book mentions the high chance of failure and burning through money, they all skip one central point…
The standard start-up process is as such… come up with an idea, get together with one or two other people, get VC funded, and you’re off. You’re playing with someone else’s money.

But what about you? Sure your company may get money, or maybe it won’t. It’s all a big gamble. In the meantime, you’ve got to eat, pay rent/mortgage, loans, etc. So it leaves you latched on to another job during the day. And if you are really committed to one day being out on your own, you’ve got to become the Night and Weekend Entrepreneur.

I’ve looked around and can’t seem to find a good source of knowledge about this topic (especially in relation to the web). I think I’ll write one.