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Now this could be an early sign of a bubble in the making. Here's why: 1. The bay believes that solofounders are a bad deal - mostly - because starting a compa

Now this could be an early sign of a bubble in the making. Here's why: 1. The bay believes that solofounders are a bad deal - mostly - because starting a company is a lot of work. And so it is - a lot of work! 2. Now here we have a handful of _startups_ that confess there's isn't enough work to keep everyone in the nimble team up on toes for even forty hours a week! This contradicts with 1. Sure it means team happiness and all that. Fine. 3. For each _startup_ that has confessed situation at 2. there should be at least 'X' times the number of start_ups who do not accept this reality. I don't know what that number 'X' would be but let's take it 10. Which means what - a bubble? [Left open]

divegeek 12y ago
> here we have a handful of _startups_ that confess there's isn't enough work to keep everyone in the nimble team up on toes for even forty hours a week I don't think they said anything of the sort. There's no claim they don't have enough work for 40 hours; I'm sure like most of us there is no end to the work, and it can and will consume all the time we're willing to give it. They're just not willing to give it as much. It's possible that will put them at a disadvantage to their competitors. It's also possible that they may be sufficiently more creative to overcome that disadvantage.
- monsterix 12y ago
  Yeah, but negative vote is a perfect example of how stupid this community has become. Not even able to digest even the slightest counter-thinking, and the recoil is never short of abusive. Look at the moron below who calls "up on toes" as corporate slang. NO. It's not a corporate slang, rather a pursuit of a start_up to beat the rest. Hopeless! This site used to be quality. Now it's full of sheep with one-track mind. My last note here. Go ahead vote it down, enjoy your dumb echo-chamber and live through your satisfaction. Bye.
  - iopq 12y ago
    You got downvoted because your post doesn't make sense.
commondream 12y ago
The work is pretty endless, we just stop at the end of the day.
tlrobinson 12y ago
I would guess that companies that have these sort of policies are already profitable and might often be considered "lifestyle businesses". I don't mean that in a bad way, they just aren't necessarily trying to be the next billion dollar business by next year.
juliangregorian 12y ago
"up on toes"? Corporate slang is just getting to be too much for me.

divegeek 12y ago

> here we have a handful of _startups_ that confess there's isn't enough work to keep everyone in the nimble team up on toes for even forty hours a week I don't think they said anything of the sort. There's no claim they don't have enough work for 40 hours; I'm sure like most of us there is no end to the work, and it can and will consume all the time we're willing to give it. They're just not willing to give it as much. It's possible that will put them at a disadvantage to their competitors. It's also possible that they may be sufficiently more creative to overcome that disadvantage.

monsterix 12y ago
Yeah, but negative vote is a perfect example of how stupid this community has become. Not even able to digest even the slightest counter-thinking, and the recoil is never short of abusive. Look at the moron below who calls "up on toes" as corporate slang. NO. It's not a corporate slang, rather a pursuit of a start_up to beat the rest. Hopeless! This site used to be quality. Now it's full of sheep with one-track mind. My last note here. Go ahead vote it down, enjoy your dumb echo-chamber and live through your satisfaction. Bye.
- iopq 12y ago
  You got downvoted because your post doesn't make sense.

commondream 12y ago

The work is pretty endless, we just stop at the end of the day.

tlrobinson 12y ago

I would guess that companies that have these sort of policies are already profitable and might often be considered "lifestyle businesses". I don't mean that in a bad way, they just aren't necessarily trying to be the next billion dollar business by next year.

juliangregorian 12y ago

"up on toes"? Corporate slang is just getting to be too much for me.