Startup Life: Surviving and Thriving in a Relationship with an Entrepreneur

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

We have had an amazing experience writing this book together. We have been talking about it for several years and finally committed to it when Brad agreed with his publisher (Wiley) to do a series of books called Startup Revolution. We started in earnest in June 2012 during a three-month stretch where we spent the entire summer at our house in Keystone, Colorado. Other than a trip to Europe last summer where we spent 60 days together, this was the longest uninterrupted stretch of time we’ve spent together in our 22-year relationship.

While we had high hopes of writing together side by side all summer, Brad was hard at work on the first book in this series, Startup Communities: Building an Entrepreneurial Ecosystem in Your City. We spent some time on Startup Life, but the work really didn’t start in earnest until the beginning of September. As a result, this book is evidence that you actually can write a book largely in two months in the midst of all the other craziness of an entrepreneurial life. While several of our friends have suggested that our next book should be called Startup Author: Surviving and Thriving Writing a Book with Your Significant Other, Brad is going to get to work next on Startup Boards: Making Your Board of Directors Useful Again, and Amy is going to finish up her first novel, The North Side of Trees.

We have learned from numerous people about how to have a successful and satisfying relationship. Many of them have been entrepreneurs—some of ...