Dan, just make sure you don't buy too much into the other side of things.
There's no glory in being "holed up in an office in Philly for $650 a month working 14-hours a day this summer."
You don't get any special reward for doing things the hard way. Maybe you know this. I sure wish I did when I decided to bootstrap in Chicago 4 years ago. I made things really hard on myself thinking there was some special reward that would come from it. Other than raising my tolerance for suffering and comfort with extreme poverty, there really wasn't. And living on $1200/month made it really hard to do good work. Again, this might not be your situation. But I hear stuff like this from people when they explain why they're staying in place X and bootstrapping what they say will be a big world-changing company, and I wonder...
There's no glory in being "holed up in an office in Philly for $650 a month working 14-hours a day this summer."
You don't get any special reward for doing things the hard way. Maybe you know this. I sure wish I did when I decided to bootstrap in Chicago 4 years ago. I made things really hard on myself thinking there was some special reward that would come from it. Other than raising my tolerance for suffering and comfort with extreme poverty, there really wasn't. And living on $1200/month made it really hard to do good work. Again, this might not be your situation. But I hear stuff like this from people when they explain why they're staying in place X and bootstrapping what they say will be a big world-changing company, and I wonder...