Ask HN: Should I sell my house to fund my startup? Anyone with the same story?
Everyone says the market is frothy and startups raise unreal sums of money they don&#x27;t even need at high valuations, yet I&#x27;m failling to. I never attended Stanford, didn&#x27;t work at FAANG and I&#x27;m not even from the US, so I don&#x27;t have relationships with founders&#x2F;investors. I&#x27;m technical, yet need engineers to launch. I built an mvp, pivoted, did customer development etc. I&#x27;m full time for over a year, and I&#x27;m 25. The market is fairly new and many don&#x27;t understand it, but I&#x27;ve been working in this space for 8 years, been working with biggest companies. I have multiple ideas I&#x27;m confident about if this one will fail. If you had a similar story - please tell it, especially if you failed.<p>So should I sell my house to fund my startup to some milestone? I don&#x27;t need cars nor houses, I only care about building stuff and learning, only things that make me happy. Should I YOLO the fuck out of my life?