True. Another difference is that in a stratup you get frequent and continuous feedback about your idea, and as long as you manage to adjust accordingly you have

True. Another difference is that in a stratup you get frequent and continuous feedback about your idea, and as long as you manage to adjust accordingly you have good chances to survive. In academia, instead, there can be gaps of years between starting an experiment and seeing the first results, so "moving slowly" and "de-risking each step" is really the only way to achieve anything.