"Paul Graham, Jessica’s husband and partner in Y Combinator, has tackled this subject on his website. “The biggest reason founders stop working on their start-ups is that they get demoralized,” he writes. “Some people seem to have unlimited self-generated morale. These almost always succeed. At the other extreme, there are people who seem to have no ability to do this; they need a boss to motivate them. In the middle there is a large band of people who have some, but not unlimited, ability to motivate themselves. These can succeed through careful morale management (and some luck)."
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I’m somewhere in the middle.I have some ideas around companies that the world needs, that would survive (none of them are going to be the new Facebook, but they would service a need), and that might even make me some coin, but so far I’ve only been motivated enough to get involved in 2. I have another 6 ideas or so (Medicine, Charity, Apparel) where there is a lack of market or skills, thereby an opportunity for some coin via arbitrage.
From :: How Hard Could it be? Start Up Static by Joel Spolsky
