They're isolated from normal sources of support, struggling, seeing a good portion of their income go to rent. Their private lives get put on the back burner.
The No. 1 problem facing dot-comers is the amount of commitment and time spent at these start-ups at the expense of the employee's personal life. People make the sacrifice of putting the job ahead of relationships and personal health.
Many times workers work very closely to each other in the 'cube' environment, and that is very stressful because it's noisy, there's little or no privacy, and there is a forced conviviality.
There's a tremendous toll on the human side that start-ups take on people. And it just didn't seem like something that was being addressed.
