Don’t Build a Billion-Dollar Business

Re:Don’t Build a Billion-Dollar Business by JoeAltmaier on Friday September 04, 2015 @12:37PM (#10171480)

Hm. Maybe if you live in the right place? I have 80 acres in Iowa, a house free and clear, 2 in college and one working in Silicon Valley. All on one income.

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Re:Don’t Build a Billion-Dollar Business by bennyg on Friday September 04, 2015 @12:47PM (#10171534)

Exactly. Try anywhere not directly in the highest rent-inflated area in the US, or in any moderately rural suburb. Not that difficult to afford a house. Could get a decent 3 bedroom, 2.5 bath starter home where I'm at right now for about $750 a month in mortgage.

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Re:Don’t Build a Billion-Dollar Business by Retra on Friday September 04, 2015 @01:10PM (#10171674)

*for every American. The "American Dream" isn't that stuff for the ones who already have it. It's that for everybody.

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Re:Don’t Build a Billion-Dollar Business by refurb on Friday September 04, 2015 @01:42PM (#10171849)

If that's your definition of the "American Dream" it never existed.

You think folks back in the 1920s could live in the most expensive cities in the US, own a home, send their kids to college, all on one income. I don't think so.

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Re:Don’t Build a Billion-Dollar Business by sp332 on Friday September 04, 2015 @03:07PM (#10172256)

Not that they could do it. But that was the dream. That dream is dead.

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Re:Don’t Build a Billion-Dollar Business by OJFord on Friday September 04, 2015 @05:53PM (#10173018)

So what are you calling 'dream'?

Your seem to be saying people don't even want that any more.

If so, what's the problem?

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Re:Don’t Build a Billion-Dollar Business by JoeAltmaier on Friday September 04, 2015 @03:31PM (#10172410)

Its supposed to be a dream. Not everybody achieves the dream. But its possible.

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