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Is anyone else tired of the contrived, amped-up metaphors we use to discuss startup life? Dying in battle != having a failed startup venture I don't get what
by corry 15y ago
Is anyone else tired of the contrived, amped-up metaphors we use to discuss startup life?
Dying in battle != having a failed startup venture
I don't get what we gain by pretending that the joy and opportunities of startup life is somehow analogous to fighting for our very lives.
What's our downside, really? That we're embarrassed when we fail? Or that we forgo a few years of big-company paychecks?
That's materially different than Alexander's army's downside - suffering and then death.
- nasmorn 15y agoEven though you are tired of it, here is another one. The root cause of Alexanders invasion as of Herodotus was the march of the 10000. The Persian army could not stop this ragtag band of Greek mercenaries in all those months and so they had obviously grown weak. So if you see a big market were at least one new entrant survived, you should raise more capital than they did and conquer the peacock throne of your market.
- corry 15y agoI can't tell if you're joking or not... so I'll just reiterate my main point: men fighting to prevent the suffering and death of their families is not even remotely the same category of thing as startups (and business in general). We can read in lots of fancy analogies, but unless we recognize that war (with the possibility of real, major loss) is played at completely different stakes (and therefore different strategy), it seems like a silly exercise. My $0.02!