This past weekend I was out celebrating Neil Joglekar‘s birthday. Neil’s an old friend from Stanford and the co-founder and CEO of Reel Surfer. Neil spent a number of years bootstrapping the company and paying the bills by tutoring on the side before going through YC and raising VC funding. I figured he must have learned a lot along the way, so I asked him to share a few tips as I take my first shot at starting a company. Neil got very serious for a moment (a rarity) and gave me the following advice:
Manage your emotions, and hang out with people who don’t care that you’re running a company.
I thought that was some of the best advice I’ve received thus far when it comes to entrepreneurship.