The startup culture should look for more systematic ways to address mental health problems. Asking for money from friends and family. Pitching skeptical customers who don’t know you. Shipping a half-finished product on deadline. Anyone launching a company knows they’re in for a wild ride, financially and emotionally. By now it’s a cliché that entrepreneurs possess a combination of narcissism, craziness and wild-eyed optimism that distinguishes them from the rest of humanity. But less-talked about is the mental toll that starting up takes on founders, from the crises of confidence that inevitably occur to the highs when things go […]
