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Re:Things I’ve never heard a successful startup founder say by rimantas on Monday August 15, 2011 @11:47AM (#2887351) 

  > We always had plenty of time to spend with our family and 
  > friends.
If you cannot say that, I's say you failed.

  > We always knew better than our customers. Eventually,
  > they realized that.
Should I repeat Ford's saying about faster horse? And not doing focus groups hurts Apple so much…
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Re:Things I’ve never heard a successful startup founder say by irahul on Monday August 15, 2011 @12:31PM (#2887550)
> We always had plenty of time to spend with our family and > friends. > If you cannot say that, I's say you failed.

Doesn't "not having plenty of time to spend with our family and friends" follows directly from not winding up at 5?

Regardless of what you consider a failure, the hard fact is most of the businesses demand time - a lot of time. And there are only so many hours in a day. For the starting days, putting up south of 12 hours is common, and that takes a toll on the time you would have spent with your near and dear ones.

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Re:Things I’ve never heard a successful startup founder say by palish on Monday August 15, 2011 @07:32PM (#2889147)
Actually, Ford never said that.[1][2]

[1] - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2747106

[2] - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2819549

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