This page collects links to blog posts, articles and books about the entrepreneurial lifestyle and how founders cope with pressure.
- Ben Horowitz's book The Hard Thing About Hard Things conveys deep insights about the pressures of leading a startup and guidance on how to manage them; in this post, Horowitz gives advice to startup CEOs on managing their own psychology
- Startup Life, a book by Brad Feld and Amy Batchelor offers advice for coping with the pressures that entrepreneurial career can put on friends/family relationships
- Feld has written many posts about the connection between entrepreneurship and depression; Michelle Nickolaisen on why entrepreneurs are vulnerable to depression and what they should do about it; Sarah Jane Coffey's first-person account of her experience with startup-induced burnout and depression
- Jessica Bruder of Inc. Magazine on the psychological price of entrepreneurship
- Phin Barnes of First Round Capital on founders' fears and "The Monster Under the Bed"; entrepreneur/investor Semil Shah on similar themes
- Jason Cohen on what to do when the emotional pressure of founding a firm makes you want to throw in the towel; Spencer Fry on coping with this pressure
- Eric Reis on handling fear as an entrepreneur
- Steve Blank on work-life balance for an entrepreneur
- More on work-life balance tradeoffs: “Confessions of an Entrepreneur’s Wife” from Inc. Magazine
- Jerry Colonna on the payoff from/personal cost of entrepreneurial passion
- Paul DeJoe of Ecquire on managing the pressure that comes with being an entrepreneur;
- Serial entrepreneur and 4-hour workweek guru Tim Ferriss on managing entrepreneurial manic-depression
