Comments on: Moving on

By: elise

elise — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 13:02:15 +0000

Alexandre: good advice
Indeneus, aleX: thx

By: Alexandre Dulaunoy

Alexandre Dulaunoy — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 11:19:06 +0000

Good luck for the future. Knowing your founding partners is something very difficult until you are really working all together. I experienced that and that can be sometime painful. What I learned if you are founding a company, you need to work in a pre-startup (before leaving your day-to-day job, every weekend or alike) mode where people can know each other for a while before doing the big jump.

By: Indeneus/Sandel

Indeneus/Sandel — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 00:31:59 +0000

Starting over .. it sounds tough but so challenging.
Good luck and all the best in 2009.

By: alEx

alEx — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 13:56:31 +0000

Good luck with your new project.

By: elise

elise — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 18:57:25 +0000

Thanks to you too for sharing your experience too ! Must have been a tough decision.

I’ll only get money out of it if the project succeeds – but i feel like a weight lifted off my shoulders, however it turns out.

By: Peter

Peter — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 17:49:32 +0000

Thanks for sharing this experience – at least I could found out that I am not the only one in a similar situation. I also founded a Rails startup with an Indian partner and my story is very similar to yours (except that it took a year to step out of it; my wife was also involved as a coder (and my 1.5 year old daughter as an innocent bystander – we had to move to India for a few months) and also I got nothing out of it (no equity, money or anything)).

It was a tough decision to make – after all, I built the code from nothing, had hundreds of hours in it etc. – but it was the right decision to make and I couldn’t be happier now.