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Quite some irony in the fact that while some people are trying to build products quickly, Hacker News (run by startup incubator YCombinator) has a 20-comment th

Quite some irony in the fact that while some people are trying to build products quickly, Hacker News (run by startup incubator YCombinator) has a 20-comment thread debating what 'startup' means.

shafyy 8y ago
By that logic, you can say people that build startups should never do something else in their 24h day.
- PakG1 8y ago
  Don't be silly. I've never seen anyone advocating for a 24 hour day. At the very most, I've seen 18 hour days. Let's be realistic. https://www.quora.com/How-did-CEO-Marissa-Mayer-pull-all-nighters-and-130-hour-work-weeks-while-at-Google https://www.quora.com/How-did-CEO-Marissa-Mayer-pull-all-nig... Want to be sarcastic here, but feel like people would look down on me.
  - shafyy 8y ago
    That's not what I'm advocating. Just arguing against the parent who said some equivalent of "while others are building products, you wannabe entrepreneurs are all talks here on HN".
    - PakG1 8y ago
      Realize that, I was making a sarcastic joke. :)
      - shafyy 8y ago
        Haha. Never forget to add /s at the end, sarcasm is hard to convey over text and with an audience that doesn't know you well :-)
- scarejunba 8y ago
  Oh no, you can spend it on whatever you want. Arguing about the definition of ‘startup’, though?
michaelsjoeberg 8y ago
Successful bootstrapping strategies would render something like YCombinator useless so. Expect some resistance.