A lot of good points here but he might not have seen the flip-side, and that's something that can sour someone on startups real fast. Here are a few that I've

A lot of good points here but he might not have seen the flip-side, and that's something that can sour someone on startups real fast. Here are a few that I've run into: A lack of funding and the headaches that come with it like downsizing, cost-cutting, and just the general absence of job-security. Having a visionary CEO who is also crazy or incompetent or both. Having a really nice product and it going nowhere because it's either ahead of it's time or behind.