Reasons You Launched Your Startup

- World of Warcraft account now expensable
- College dropout programmer buddy needed a job
- Bought a domain with lots of x’s in it
- Wanted to get in Fast Company
- Dad had nothing else to invest in
- If all else fails, you get to keep the chairs
- Developing a taste for beef ramen
- Found hot venue for a launch party
- While coding drunk, accidentally mashed up two apps
- Addicted to drinking Bawls
- “Oh yeah? Well I’ll start my own Google!”
- Friend of Michael Arrington; TechCrunch running out of companies to cover
- Got starry-eyed browsing LinkedIn
- Wanted to live in the Y-Combinator apartments next to Justin.tv
- Shares all vested and nowhere to go
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