> I know I'm being a little cynical here, but you should be working on your startup, not attending parties. If you're going to sacrifice to do something, go all in.
This is ridiculous. Devoting every waking moment to your job is a quick road to burnout and permanent failure. You need personal time to relax and blow off steam, whether that's going to parties or quietly reading in your living room.
But a startup is more than a job. The mentality I had as an employee is much different than what I had as a founder.
Some start-ups are like rocket ships, and they just take off and wildly successful.
More often than not, most startups don't have that amazing trajectory right off the bat. My personal belief is that taking that extra hour to perfect a feature, or refine a pitch, or do customer outreach, or test your product, is what separates the rest of the startups--ones that make it to the next level, with those that don't.
There is some element of luck and skill involved, but it's that championship drive that is required.
Do you need time to ensure you don't crash and burn-yeah, I'm totally with that. Perhaps the poster's way to let off steam is to go to parties, which seems doubtful--though I suspect he probably doesn't really go to a lot of parties, and that it was more of a figure of speech.
Absolutely must agree with this. While you definitely need to put in a helluva lot of effort and passion and be absolutely driven... if you skip socializing, you won't just destroy your startup, you'll destroy yourself in the process. Seriously. Partying & socializing can be huge distractions for sure, but social skills atrophy, so you have got to balance the two. A startup founder that doesn't reconnect with the real world once in a while runs too much risk of building something no-one wants.
This is ridiculous. Devoting every waking moment to your job is a quick road to burnout and permanent failure. You need personal time to relax and blow off steam, whether that's going to parties or quietly reading in your living room.