Ask HN: Should I sell my house to fund my startup? Anyone with the same story?
Everyone says the market is frothy and startups raise unreal sums of money they don't even need at high valuations, yet I'm failling to. I never attended Stanford, didn't work at FAANG and I'm not even from the US, so I don't have relationships with founders/investors. I'm technical, yet need engineers to launch. I built an mvp, pivoted, did customer development etc. I'm full time for over a year, and I'm 25. The market is fairly new and many don't understand it, but I've been working in this space for 8 years, been working with biggest companies. I have multiple ideas I'm confident about if this one will fail. If you had a similar story - please tell it, especially if you failed. So should I sell my house to fund my startup to some milestone? I don't need cars nor houses, I only care about building stuff and learning, only
Why it failed
Everyone says the market is frothy and startups raise unreal sums of money they don't even need at high valuations, yet I'm failling to. I never attended Stanford, didn't work at FAANG and I'm not even from the US, so I don't have relationships with found
- Kind
- startup
- Status
- Shut down
- Inventor
- Throwey12
- Ended
- 2021
- Source
- hackernews