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It's not different at a small company. At a small company you have "pivots" or "going out of business" or "competition from another company", instead of "compet

by gohrt 11y ago

It's not different at a small company. At a small company you have "pivots" or "going out of business" or "competition from another company", instead of "competition from another team"

nostrademons 11y ago
Almost makes you think that the part that's wrong is the narrative that we're sold as kids, y'know "Work hard and good things will happen to you." It's more like "Work hard and there is a ~2-3% chance good things will happen to you, but if you don't work hard there's a 0% chance good things will happen to you."
- dorgo 11y ago
  Be clever and good things will happen to you.
  - soft_dev_person 11y ago
    Be clever and make good things happen to you.
- saiya-jin 11y ago
  not really, for me its more like work on yourself, not necessarily hard, but continuously. in time, you will leave most people behind. and recognize moments when life is giving you a chance, and grab it like there is no tomorrow.
rz2k 11y ago
There is a way to see it as different. Ideally people like entrepreneurship because you succeed or fail because your idea and execution meet the market's needs. That's better than getting paid on the basis of your own effort or discomfort involved in doing the work necessary to complete it. Certainly, the market is fickle, but that is different than something political that is going on where you have no influence. It is completely conceivable that you optimized such that your product generated revenue far in excess of its costs, but that it is canceled for a (good) strategic reason. Sure the difference is probably only psycholgical, but finding out that work you cared about was only a waste of time somehow feels more just if there was no market for it than if it had traction and the was shuttered for a reason you don't know.
- amirmc 11y ago
  The very important difference is that at a job you get paid regardless. You can even shift your mental model such that "it's just a job" and start leaving the crap 'at work'. In a startup (esp if it's your own), the psychological and emotional stakes are significantly higher. Also, there's no reason that politics can't find their way into a startup you're running. You just might not notice it because you've positioned yourself at the top of the tree of monkeys.
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by gohrt 11y ago

It's not different at a small company. At a small company you have "pivots" or "going out of business" or "competition from another company", instead of "competition from another team"

nostrademons 11y ago

Almost makes you think that the part that's wrong is the narrative that we're sold as kids, y'know "Work hard and good things will happen to you." It's more like "Work hard and there is a ~2-3% chance good things will happen to you, but if you don't work hard there's a 0% chance good things will happen to you."

dorgo 11y ago
Be clever and good things will happen to you.
- soft_dev_person 11y ago
  Be clever and make good things happen to you.
saiya-jin 11y ago
not really, for me its more like work on yourself, not necessarily hard, but continuously. in time, you will leave most people behind. and recognize moments when life is giving you a chance, and grab it like there is no tomorrow.

rz2k 11y ago

There is a way to see it as different. Ideally people like entrepreneurship because you succeed or fail because your idea and execution meet the market's needs. That's better than getting paid on the basis of your own effort or discomfort involved in doing the work necessary to complete it. Certainly, the market is fickle, but that is different than something political that is going on where you have no influence. It is completely conceivable that you optimized such that your product generated revenue far in excess of its costs, but that it is canceled for a (good) strategic reason. Sure the difference is probably only psycholgical, but finding out that work you cared about was only a waste of time somehow feels more just if there was no market for it than if it had traction and the was shuttered for a reason you don't know.

amirmc 11y ago
The very important difference is that at a job you get paid regardless. You can even shift your mental model such that "it's just a job" and start leaving the crap 'at work'. In a startup (esp if it's your own), the psychological and emotional stakes are significantly higher. Also, there's no reason that politics can't find their way into a startup you're running. You just might not notice it because you've positioned yourself at the top of the tree of monkeys.

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