Besides the US no other country is so picky about "sexist" comments. This is a completely normal attitude in other cultures and not sexist at all (for them, might still be sexist for you).
Thank you. Everyone who seeks funding should probably understand this.
We are fine in terms of money, I just had this (misguided) idea that getting funding now helps me to be even less involved in the project but since my decisions made this a success I think we really look to sell the whole thing.
Before we do this we will keep growing it for a little longer and try to make everyone replaceable. It doesnt matter much for us anyway. We just want to get done with the making money part of our life and will get there regardless if we sell or not until the end of the year.
That's where our unfair advantage comes in. We know already some companies who work on replicating what we do and they have good chances to make this happen, but...
- Our product is hard to replicate and this will take them time and give them a lot of headache. We know some companies gave up.
- We build our own competitor in the same niche right now (under different leadership but I still hold control) so we cover the first and second spot in it. They are talented and can copy us first. So if people want choice they will get that.
- We dominate the conversation and have some things in place that ensure it will stay like this.
Regardless of all this, I'm fine if we would loose the top spot because the market is growing so fast that even a smaller piece of the pie is a decent sized one and we keep the whole operation extremely lean and focused so we we will stay profitable no matter what.
For us its life work balance. I just started a small game studio because that's what I really like to do. It's already a retirement project, sort of, because I only have to make the strategic decisions for our business and someone else is handling all day to day business and scaling the company. I just dont want to abandon the game studio project now just to make some investors happy. We have positive cash flow anyway.
Thanks a lot! I also spoke with a friend who already received funding and we will simply keep growing our own way but also work with some lawyers who go out and find a buyer for the company.
> also work with some lawyers who go out and find a buyer for the company.
Hm. You realize that this may be a bit premature?
You're in the midst of your growth curve, I'd go a bit further before thinking about selling the company, especially if you want to remain 'happy'. Selling a company usually means there will be some strings attached, for instance, you might end up working for the acquiring party for a set period (possibly years...), and you will lose autonomy, which is one surefire way of becoming less happy.
On top of all that you'll have to negotiate a deal (preferably one which does not leave you with a bunch of illiquid stock but with a nice pile of cash), and that too will take a lot of organization and knowledge.
I'd suggest you do everything you can to read up on your situation and what your options are before you commit to any moves.
Yes you are absolutely right. We just put things into place step by step to make it more sellable. We still have team members that can't be replaced but work on changing this.
Thanks! My plan is to open source the whole site in the near future, but I'm trying to do a bit of a tidy-up and refactor before then. In the meantime, your very welcome to view the source code for any of the demos, like this file used for the oscilloscope: https://academo.org/demos/virtual-oscilloscope/demo.js
Every decision requires willpower. Doing things without thinking (making habits out of them) saves your willpower for other valuable things you have to do.
When it comes to positive psychology married people with kids feel less satisfied with life, but other factors that also contribute to happiness such as meaning and purpose are increased in this group of people and make up for that.
Interesting - thank you. Especially the three studies in the first paper.
The discussion on moderators on the first study is interesting since it shows that it's not a universal truth - but significantly moderated by age, marital status and sex. For example:
"Finally, age significantly moderated the link between parenthood and
life satisfaction. Simple effects analyses revealed that young parents (ages 17-25) were less
satisfied with their lives than their childless counterparts (b = -0.39, p < .001); mid-range age
parents (ages 26-62) were more satisfied than their childless peers (b = 0.42, p < .001); and older
parents (ages 63 and older) did not differ from older non-parents (b = 0.16, p = .29)."
The discussion on recall bias is interesting to - nice to see that mentioned.
US only population too. Would be interested to see how that goes across cultures.
It's not the time that's missing for most people it's the serious motivation. Having more people who depend on you is a huge external motivation factor.
I love lesswrong but don't think his comment is hindsight biased. I do not have kids and me and my wife do not want kids anytime soon just because we enjoy playtime and having less responsibility and more freedom.
