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Re:Y Combinator Companies by nl on Wednesday September 07, 2016 @07:06PM (#12448790)
If you can just avoid dying, you get rich. That sounds like a joke, but it's actually a pretty good description of what happens in a typical startup.

http://www.paulgraham.com/die.html

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Re:Y Combinator Companies by jdoliner on Wednesday September 07, 2016 @08:04PM (#12449111)
Unfortunately many only prolong their dying, not avoid it.
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