Startup is bad for your Health

Being in a good bill of health is the best investment for yourself and for your family. When starting up a company, the founders and the employee pioneers forget or just ignore this one. Not that they do it intentionally but due to to necessity. With several startups under my belt, I have my own tales and horror stories.


Startup company is always an informal company, mostly if the company is just small and no big funding to boot. The organization is always almost flat and execution is fast, although if it involves buying something it will depends on the budget. Most startup are top-heavy, the founders that act as CEO, CTO and COO. Then some top-notch pioneering employees pirated or hired from other companies. All of my startup company days were in IT industry, where the products or services are always into niche market. This where the problem starts, most of the time your target customers are not segmented, doesn't even know what you are pitching to them and no budget for it since they don't know what it is all about.Development, customization, integration and understanding of customer's system is very vital for startup company and the customer themselves. Customer doesn't want to tell you all about their system, but startup needs it. Customer's doesn't want any changes and surprises to their existing implementation of technologies but startup services and products always require changes and customization. This introduces long hours of work, stress and pressure to make the system work or else the company will close shop. Tell that to your wife and you will double the problem.