How to Be a Successful Entrepreneur

You have to educate yourself about what venture capital and corporate finance is about. If you're going to take money from a VC, read that book because it will tell you exactly how deals are structured. You end up falling into patterns potentially around 24-hour obsession with your business. So if you don't put in boundaries soon enough, you'll burn out like anybody else. There's nothing special about bootstrapping. However, whatever pennies we had, whatever peanuts we had in our bank account for you can book me, it was always separate, financially separate to my personal expenses. That way it just gave me some mental clarity about what I was doing.