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"Key startup lessons ... if your goal is to make a lot of money, work like crazy and get lots of people talking about you"

By contrast, you might want a nice job in a little niche with lots of work/life balance, a reasonable income and being left alone except by your valued customers. In which case, almost none of these lessons are for you.

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I am not sure the word startup applies to that kind of boutique or lifestyle company and this is specifically talking about startups in the way we have now accepted them; funded, high growth, make it or bust type of companies.

I agree with you though and I would not want to work for such a company or take this advice and I do run my own companies, but I no longer call them startups because everyone always asks where are the VCs and why do I have time to socialise so much instead of killing myself ‘breaking things’.

I’d encourage you to keep using the word startup. The world is better off if the term and the culture it imbues doesn’t become too narrow.

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