<story><title>Lifestyle programming</title><url>http://successfulsoftware.net/2013/11/06/lifestyle-programming/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hermitcrab</author><text>Lifestyle business, micropreneur, microisv, indie. None of them are great terms. I am still waiting for someone to come up with a better term for what I do.</text></item><item><author>yesimahuman</author><text>Strange that this dropped off the page so quickly, I think it&amp;#x27;s an interesting post.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;d like to add that it&amp;#x27;s quite possible to have a high growth company that does not take on institutional investment. My company is neither a Lifestyle business (I also hate that term, I think it&amp;#x27;s an awesome thing) or a VC-backed startup, but we have lots of users and are making really nice revenue.&lt;p&gt;The costs have gone down so much, that I think the reason people still think fundraising is required is because they can&amp;#x27;t afford to live or hire in SF without it, and there is a lot of pressure by successful investors for young founders to make the &amp;quot;big&amp;quot; bets.&lt;p&gt;My goal is to have an id software, 37signals, MailChimp, Atlassian, GitHub, Campaign Monitor, etc. kind of company. Now &lt;i&gt;those&lt;/i&gt; companies are&amp;#x2F;were fucking cool. Plus, they&amp;#x27;ve actually stuck around for more than a few years!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>patja</author><text>I&amp;#x27;ve always been fond of the label &amp;quot;living the dream.&amp;quot;</text></comment>
<story><title>Lifestyle programming</title><url>http://successfulsoftware.net/2013/11/06/lifestyle-programming/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hermitcrab</author><text>Lifestyle business, micropreneur, microisv, indie. None of them are great terms. I am still waiting for someone to come up with a better term for what I do.</text></item><item><author>yesimahuman</author><text>Strange that this dropped off the page so quickly, I think it&amp;#x27;s an interesting post.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;d like to add that it&amp;#x27;s quite possible to have a high growth company that does not take on institutional investment. My company is neither a Lifestyle business (I also hate that term, I think it&amp;#x27;s an awesome thing) or a VC-backed startup, but we have lots of users and are making really nice revenue.&lt;p&gt;The costs have gone down so much, that I think the reason people still think fundraising is required is because they can&amp;#x27;t afford to live or hire in SF without it, and there is a lot of pressure by successful investors for young founders to make the &amp;quot;big&amp;quot; bets.&lt;p&gt;My goal is to have an id software, 37signals, MailChimp, Atlassian, GitHub, Campaign Monitor, etc. kind of company. Now &lt;i&gt;those&lt;/i&gt; companies are&amp;#x2F;were fucking cool. Plus, they&amp;#x27;ve actually stuck around for more than a few years!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>yesimahuman</author><text>You&amp;#x27;re a hacker, challenging the norms of what it means to start and grow a business. If software is eating the world, it&amp;#x27;s surely eating the capital requirements to starting software companies.</text></comment>