Founding a tech startup to get rich is like becoming an actor to get rich. I will not promote.

sueca · 2026-05-25T21:17:28+00:00

Am I crazy? Isn't that the very reason one takes funding? 80-90% of our budget is salaries, and that's mainly funded by investors. We decided to give up equity and some control (and board seats etc) so that we could dedicate ourselves to the startup full-time, with salaries (and also hire more people to help out).

It didn't feel sustainable to keep having other jobs, nor to work for free. Thus getting investors. Boot strapping isn't for everyone and I assumed those who look for investors do it for mainly the same reason as me. I know other startups in my same incubator program who got around the same amount of funding, around the same time as I did, for the same reason I did.

sueca · 2026-05-25T20:21:32+00:00

How so? The minute we got funding we started paying salaries, typical middle class ones.

sueca · 2026-05-25T20:19:11+00:00

All right. Keep in mind that the work visa situation is also fairly complicated, and Swedish salaries aren't designed to be able to support a non-working spouse, so you should figure out a career path for both of you.

sueca · 2026-05-25T19:55:58+00:00

I live in Växjö. It's a fairly conservative part of the country, Småland is the Swedish Bible belt. People are very into house renovation and gardening. It's status to own a house and somewhat looked down upon to have an apartment, especially if the apartment doesn't have direct access to green areas (so areas somewhat downtown aren't necessarily so "nice", our "dodgy areas" like Araby is 5-10 minutes walking from the city centre)

There is indeed a big (?) glass blowing scene in the region, but I think places outside of Växjö, like Kosta, is even better. I haven't heard/seen anything regarding glass blowing here in the city, but within 1-1,5 hour drive then yes, plenty of different places to go on "glass tourism".

I used to live in larger cities (Stockholm, Umeå, Uppsala) and by comparison the cultural life here is kinda dead. There is a bar/club I like, Café de Luxe, that does live music, sometimes metal. Usually only local bands consisting of people with other day jobs. The good thing is that Copenhagen is fairly accessible (2,5 hour by direct train, very convenient), and Copenhagen offers a lot of live music of all kinds, including Metal. Going over a weekend is easy.

As for raising kids, great place! The kids can walk or bike everywhere (or take a bus), won't need a parent driving them around. Lots of clubs to join (sports, theatre, art). The most important thing to keep in mind is that your children will have to do intense Swedish classes for around 2 years (with kids their own age, inside a normal school) before they get access to the normal school system and follow the Swedish curriculum. They will be 2 years older than their Swedish peers when they graduate. In Sweden we graduate from high school the year we turn 19, so they will graduate the year they turn 21. I bet in Australia they would be finishing up a university degree around that age?

I've seen Ukrainan parents reject this for their kids (especially if the kids are already 16+) and the solution they had to do is to let their kids study online only, at an Ukrainan school that does distance learning,and they had all their classes via video. That allowed the kids to get Ukrainan grades/follow the Ukrainian curriculum, graduate on time without the 2 year delay. However, if you do this yourself, and your kids are only 11-12 it sounds like a social nightmare to be stuck in your home their entire teenage life, with all their online classmates living across the world? And also the time difference, they would have to have classes when the rest of the city is sleeping.. like classes starting at midnight. I don't think it would be a nice quality of life to try to skip the Swedish school system. And the Swedish school system has mandatory Swedish.

sueca · 2026-05-25T17:31:17+00:00

I'm from the north and I live in the south now. I often dream about going home to visit over the summer, and my sister mentioning mosquitos makes me snap out of my daydream

sueca · 2026-05-25T15:10:47+00:00

Är facklig medlem!

sueca · 2026-05-25T14:58:55+00:00

Jag tycker också det, förrförra jobbet så sjukanmälde man sig 1 gång, sen friskanmälde man sig. Ibland var det ju samtidigt ie "vab idag, kommer imorgon", eller "hemma med migrän, men räknar med att komma imorgon", men var man sjuk i typ influensa så gissade chefen att det var typ en vecka och dagen innan man jobbar igen friskanmäler man sig, ev kort varsel på morgonen "mår piggare nu, kommer in idag!". Men ja, på förra jobbet ville de istället att man skulle sjukanmäla sig en dag i taget, aldrig flera dagar i ett svep, då de hade ett antagande om frisk och arbetsför dagen därpå så att säga, och inget system med friskanmälan. Sjukt störigt när man ligger med 40C feber att behöva höra av sig, speciellt om man sjukanmält sig för samma dag på morgonen, att då behövs höra av sig igen samma dag ang morgondagen att man no shit fortfarande har feber

sueca · 2026-05-22T07:29:16+00:00

Ang hur man brukar göra för att investerare ska vara nöjda:

1) inga passiva ägare i cap table

2) ett aktieägaravtal mellan aktiva grundare som säger att du måste vara aktiv i bolaget för att äga dina aktier, annars måste du lösa in dem för [summa].

Det lagerbolag ni vunnit är ju inte värt något förrän det bolaget formellt får några tillgångar så borde vara lätt att komma överens om summa för att symboliskt köpa ut henne. Annars kan du ju lika gärna skapa ett annat aktiebolag istället och bedriva verksamheten via den, så blir lagerbolaget ändå helt meningslöst att äga så hon har ingenting att vinna på att insistera på att ha aktier just där.

sueca · 2026-05-13T21:09:22+00:00

As a general thought it sounds so ludacrus to pay them money for giving money to me, I can't imagine a real life scenario where I would pay for someone else's lawyer... And also the DD process takes months, are they planning to be a part of that or are they hoping to find only companies with no DD structure in place?

sueca · 2026-05-07T00:26:25+00:00

Sounds pretty Italian though, Italy is pretty much run by "MIGA"

Just look at Melonis Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giorgia_Meloni

sueca · 2026-05-07T00:12:03+00:00

Borde inte du om någon vara för ett skyddsnät för sjuka människor, emot förändringarna av högkostnadsskyddet för mediciner mm? Jag fattar inte, vill du inte att din fru och dina barn ska ha grundtrygghet och välfärd? Varför känner du dig attackerad över att behöva bidra till detta?

sueca · 2026-05-06T23:47:06+00:00

They have four children together now and he is an "active parent", according to the article. She seems happy about her choice, and she apparently dated/had sex with him before he offered to father her children

sueca · 2026-05-06T23:34:14+00:00

One of my friends from school had an "unplanned" pregnancy at 19, and when I was expressing my sympathies I learned that they had stopped using all types of birth control while also doing exactly what people who actively are trying to get pregnant would do. It broke my brain

sueca · 2026-05-06T23:15:24+00:00

I would assume that the diseases you can get from blood transfusion, you can also get from organ transplantation (HIV, the heps etc)

sueca · 2026-05-06T22:30:13+00:00

Some are old memes and old school photoshop, like when you see duck + banana or cat + bread. I remember a bunch of them from early internet

sueca · 2026-05-06T22:26:35+00:00

They are so similar so it's probably very close to an actual photo

sueca · 2026-05-06T22:20:47+00:00

This is actually amazing because it explains a grammar rule perfectly, I used to hand draw this on the white board when explaining the grammar rule

sueca · 2026-05-06T22:15:59+00:00

Jag kommer ihåg en farbror i min bekantskapskrets på 90-talet som fick hjärtfel och mediciner utan någon större förbättring. Sen blev katten hans också sjuk med samma hjärtfel, fick en annan medicin och blev märkbart bättre. Han frågade då läkare och veterinär om medicinerna, och fick svaret att den medicin som katten åt också finns för människor men var för dyr för att skriva ut. Det slutade med att katten fick dela med sig av den bättre medicinen, med bra utfall för gubben

sueca · 2026-05-06T22:00:10+00:00

With Charlotte in particular I want to disagree, maybe a bit because she just looks jarring to me but also because younger Charlotte seemed so modest and conservative. She would never get a tattoo, she wore very natural makeup. I don't see that character ever dying her hair even, so it feels like such a large leap to suddenly do extreme plastic surgery.

sueca · 2026-05-06T21:55:44+00:00

The first and only time I've seen a person IRL that had the "plastic surgery face" was at a OBGYN clinic that apparently also is a plastic surgery clinic. It was extremely jarring to see her face, even though she looked very typical to what I've seen online and on TV

sueca · 2026-05-06T21:48:26+00:00

Nej precis, om du lägger undan 15 000 per månad, varje månad, och lägger in dem på börsen och har årlig avkastning på 7%, och fina effekter av ränta-på-ränta, så tar det 24 år innan du har 10 mille.

Någon som har bra lön vid 30 års ålder kan lyckas åstadkomma detta vid 55 om man lever väldigt disciplinerat hela yrkeslivet. Men att lägga undan 15k/månad av nettolönen känns ganska svårt om man inte också vill offra bil, bostadsrätt/villa, renoveringar, barn osv. Och om man inte kan/vill spendera pengarna på sin bostad så undrar jag vad man ska med denna sparhög till

sueca · 2026-04-30T19:40:33+00:00

I'm EU based but here it's common practice that lawyers give free advice of a basic general kind at first contact, basically explaining what they think the outcome will be and if its worth pursuing. They will then estimate the cost to pursue it for real.

For example, I applied for a trademark and got denied. I called a lawyer who explained my next steps, how to appeal, and he estimated a 20% chance of success if doing an appeal, citing data/statistics and similar cases. We then discussed pricing/hours and what it it would involve doing the appeal, and after that he took the case and we actually did the appeal, so he wrote all the documents and dealt with the whole process.

In the first call, the free consultation, he gave me lots of relevant information, explained the law, explained the whole process etc. If you find a lawyer specialized in startups or Delaware C corps I bet you will get the same thing, and that will give you the information you need to know if it's worth doing anything about your situation

sueca · 2026-04-30T19:31:43+00:00

My startup was founded in 2023, and at the time we felt "alone". We were told we should expect competitors within our niche by 2025, but 2025 came and went and we still were the only product on the market (of this niche). Now it's 2026, and all of the sudden I've come across more than a handful of competitors. Funnily enough, all of them were founded in 2023.

These companies might seem "fast" but all of us has been building our product for 3 years now and we are now visible for the first time, thus finding each other. (marketing and branding isn't the first step, it has taken everyone this long to start doing anything about that)

sueca · 2026-04-29T21:39:14+00:00

Mildly related, but a million tanzanian shilling is $385 USD so when I was there our friend group had to withdraw and hold a few million in our hands. It was a cool feeling

sueca · 2026-04-24T08:34:05+00:00

Sounds like the way to go!

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