I think sites like HackerNews can give readers like me a bit of a romanticized view of how startups work. Most of the startups that I read about on HackerNews a

I think sites like HackerNews can give readers like me a bit of a romanticized view of how startups work. Most of the startups that I read about on HackerNews are the ones that are successful enough to, you know, get written about and publicized via HackerNews (or TechCrunch, or whoever). We don't hear much about the numerous failures. I can imagine that if I ran off and joined a startup solely based on the rosy outlook that I got from reading all these success stories, and then found out the hard way how things really are, I might be a bit cynical too.