Startup Life: Surviving and Thriving in a Relationship with an Entrepreneur
Brad Feld, Amy Batchelor
Language: English
Pages: 224
ISBN: 1118443640
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
"Real life insights on what it takes to make it in a relationship with an entrepreneur"
- Includes real-life examples of entrepreneurial couples who have had successful relationships and what works for them.
- Provides practical advice for adapting to change and overcoming the inevitable ups and downs associated with the entrepreneurial lifestyle.
- Written by Brad Feld, a thought-leader in this field who has been an early-stage investor and successful entrepreneur for more than twenty years.
While there's no "secret formula" to relationship success in the world of the entrepreneur, there are ways to making navigation of this territory easier. Startup Life is a well-rounded guide that has the insights and advice you need to succeed in both your personal and professional life.
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when she felt like it. Over time, we dropped this as we merged our finances. Developing a shared frame of reference was difficult for us. We were each proud of contributing to the economics of our shared life together. Since the relationship was new, it was also a way for us each to maintain some semblance of control. And it was often the source of tension, as we struggled to figure out how to make joint decisions around money. WHAT’S THE MONEY FOR? Early on, we had a number of
situation where we had to figure it out for ourselves since the amount of money we had quickly accelerated with Brad’s success as an entrepreneur. The question of what the money is for is fundamental to establishing your value systems around money. Money can buy you many things, both tangible (cars, houses, trips, shoes) and intangible (security, freedom, autonomy, choice), and at its core is a fuel you use to fund your experience on this planet. Recognize that in most relationships you are
identity, it makes sense that combining that relationship with an existing, key relationship—doing a company with a spouse, a sibling, or even a good friend—involves more than a touch of high-risk alchemy. There is a very real possibility that the mix of old and new relationships could blow up in an ugly way. While, yes, the opposite might happen and both a richer relationship and a successful venture might emerge, we don’t have any tips on how to assign probabilities to the possible outcomes,
