That at least partly depends on what you define as a “startup”.
At the most general, creating your own business (excluding the sort of “contract” status in which the only difference with an employee is in the accounting details) and making a good living from it.
At the most narrow, starting up a business that, as Guy Kawasaki puts it, solves the money problem for the rest of your life.
Maybe a survey would be interesting, either as a thread here or on somewhere like surveymonkey tha would allow anonymous responses. “1. Are you an employee/own your own business/living on a pile of money of your own/a dependent/other? 2. Which of those states would you prefer to be in? 3. If the answers to 1 and 2 are different, are you doing anything about it?”
I can’t get back to this until this evening (it is locally 10am as I write). Suggestions welcome.
You need at least one more item in there—“retired”, i.e. with passive income that exceeds one’s costs of living. Different from “living on a pile of money”, insofar as there might still be things you can’t afford.
At the most general, creating your own business (excluding the sort of “contract” status in which the only difference with an employee is in the accounting details) and making a good living from it.
At the most narrow, starting up a business that, as Guy Kawasaki puts it, solves the money problem for the rest of your life.
Maybe a survey would be interesting, either as a thread here or on somewhere like surveymonkey tha would allow anonymous responses. “1. Are you an employee/own your own business/living on a pile of money of your own/a dependent/other? 2. Which of those states would you prefer to be in? 3. If the answers to 1 and 2 are different, are you doing anything about it?”
I can’t get back to this until this evening (it is locally 10am as I write). Suggestions welcome.
You need at least one more item in there—“retired”, i.e. with passive income that exceeds one’s costs of living. Different from “living on a pile of money”, insofar as there might still be things you can’t afford.