Not for money. As we found out with the dot-com bubble in 2000, if your goal is to make a quick buck, your startup will fail.
Glamor: no thanks, that's not the point.
Experience: sure, a little bit (see a previous discussion on HN about a recent college grad asking to choose between Ph.D, startup, or Microsoft job). But not really the main point of startups.
So I have to pick: other. I do startups because I believe in the company vision (in my current case, exporting the silicon valley startup model to the rest of the world, in the previous case, bringing hardware designers with better debug tools).
Money doesn't have to mean making a quick buck. My current project won't change the world, but it will provide a sizable income stream that my co-founders and I can live off of and use to fund larger future projects.
Glamor: no thanks, that's not the point.
Experience: sure, a little bit (see a previous discussion on HN about a recent college grad asking to choose between Ph.D, startup, or Microsoft job). But not really the main point of startups.
So I have to pick: other. I do startups because I believe in the company vision (in my current case, exporting the silicon valley startup model to the rest of the world, in the previous case, bringing hardware designers with better debug tools).