>> "what do you think?" until now i thought there were only 3 stages of startups. thanks for introducing me to the fourth kind. .stages of a startup. if you

>> "what do you think?" until now i thought there were only 3 stages of startups. thanks for introducing me to the fourth kind. .stages of a startup. if you do nothing at all, you might start at a -1 index. you will fail because you're not in the market. if you get some traction you're up on 0. you're not making a difference yet but you're in the market and there will be competition and whoever executes best, wins. which brings me to index 1 if you're really crushing it, and finally becoming a success. you just put yourself at -2, because you don't need either your competitiors, or the market or timing to fail. you just need yourself. the defaults right now are that you're not obligated to get past your creative integrations choices, which basically puts yourself and your teammates at -2 in my book. i'd love it if you 'do' get across and prove me wrong though. i possibly would have been in your place 3 years back when my team & I were all roughly 23. it's safe to say that i'm now older, bruised, but more pumped & wiser and have a more clarity of purpose in my hacking. ~B