All to often, people seem to associate "not taking venture capital" with being a "lifestyle business". GitHub is an interesting business. Like EngineYard or an

All to often, people seem to associate "not taking venture capital" with being a "lifestyle business". GitHub is an interesting business. Like EngineYard or any other tool oriented startup, its potential is not the same as a broad consumer internet business (like Facebook or Google). But I don't think Github will be a "lifestyle" business. It already isn't. I don't think Paul Graham has a problem with this. But it seems like a lot of his followers do / might. I think there's an important distinction here that is missed and I'm not sure how to bring it up. (Last week I asked about doing a startup outside the US, because the US is not an option for US, and one person presumed we were doing a "lifestyle business" because we expressed costs as one of our concerns.)