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It's so nice to see this kind of thinking on YC News. There seems to be a growing trend that startups have some specific criterion for success (120 hours/week,
by jmackinn 18y ago
It's so nice to see this kind of thinking on YC News. There seems to be a growing trend that startups have some specific criterion for success (120 hours/week, absolute knowledge of programming, moving to SV). I find that a good amount of the passion I have for startups comes from the fact that there is no set plan for how it needs to be done. Interesting and creative ways of 'hacking' the business world don't have criterion. Just because PG or Google or 37signals did something a certain way does not mean that it is the only way, or even the best.
There is the old saying that there is more than one way to skin a cat. One way it to work ever waking hour of your day, but another and just as viable way is to work for 10 hours/week.
This mentality of absolutes in entrepreneurship can be detrimental to ones success and promoting it only devalues the usefulness of communities like YC News.