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Does anyone know where to follow this project, or perhaps if there's a Kickstarter or something? I can't seem to find anything outside of this one article. I would pay very good money for something like this. Ground floor apartments on major streets are awful. :-(

AirPlay Mirroring with Apple TV? That should do the trick!

This is incredibly well written and 100% on-point with my own personal experiences. This paragraph stood out the most to me:

"As a techie individual contributor in a larger company, I could go to work everyday and execute 99% predictably. As a founder, I had to find ways to plead your case over and over — to employees, investors, candidates, advertisers, users — and I got rejected a lot. For an introvert, the amount of pleading and subsequent rejection came as quite a shock."

That's probably one of the most difficult adjustments I've had to make moving from 16 years of plain-old-coding into being a founder.

The author never used any of these adjectives to describe himself (except entrepreneur, which he is entitled to use since he started his own company). I agree with you that they are highly annoying terms to use and diminish our profession. That, however, does not excuse your hostile and unnecessary comment.

This is a great article, Sidu. All of your points speak true to what I have learned going through the same process. I've only been doing the business thing for about 10 months, but already I notice a difference in perspective when speaking to non-entrepreneur engineers. Thanks for writing this.

This all happened during the final negotiations of our round. That last bit takes obnoxiously long as lawyers have to talk to one another. That was the awkward chasm we fell into: running out of cash as the final documents for the round were being finalized.

It's funny that you mention that, as that is my personal beef with many startups as well. Funding is not a measure of success; revenue is. However, this article is not about revenue. It's about the funding process. Talking about our revenue (which we didn't have at the time, but we do have now) would have been off topic.

What about the founders, especially at the beginning of the company's life? Do they have the same work week as employees?