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My favorite thing he attributes to a supposedly bad employee is that "they are only in it for the money." Yeah, and he's not.

Heck, if you're not in it for the money, don't take equity, don't take a paycheck, and heck, don't even charge for your products or services. After all, desiring money is bad. Just stay home, eat popcorn and watch TV and -- hey wait a minute: all of that costs money!

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The author talks about "generations", so we may mention this funny "generation" of 20-something entrepreneurs that try to hire people for little or no money (see the recent "chief intern" postings) to make the entrepreneur - ofter only a couple of years older than them - rich and themselves poor.

The good news is that these clever entrepreneurs tend to get what they pay for. But then they have more time than successful ones to wax poetic about this "generation" and its many misgivings.

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