Entrepreneur porn is a dangerous fantasy
"Money won’t make you happy"<p>I disagree with this.  I've been running my own company for a little over 5 years.  Not having to worry about my rent and being able to live a comfortable lifestyle has made me really happy.<p>If I made $100 million and didn't ever have to worry about money again, I definitely would be happier.  It's the peace of mind that I'm working toward.<p>But, the money isn't the main thing that makes me happy.  The development challenges and systems that I build to run my company is what I really enjoy.  The money is just a nice side-effect.<p>I agree with the rest of the article.  I had an ex-business partner that got his idea of a startup from the stories he sees online.  Everything we did had to 'change the world', regardless of the business model or practicality.<p>I had many hours of discussions about this and had to continually convince him we needed some sort of business model.  His response was always: "We will get funding"...with no users, traffic, business model, or a decent MVP.<p>At some point I finally convinced him and as soon as it got down to the hard work, and he didn't see immediate results, he got discouraged.  He thought that somehow if we just built something, we would have thousands of users in a couple of weeks.<p>I realized that even if whatever we worked on succeeded, he probably wouldn't be a good fit in the next stage of the company and I would be spending more and more of my time fighting these ideas.  I had to end the partnership and he ended up getting a job.<p>Not everyone should own a business.