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Re:Why to Start a Startup in a Bad Economy (2008) by gnicholas on Wednesday January 18, 2023 @01:52PM (#34431121)
According to PG, a startup is a company designed to grow fast. [1] Again, this is a bit at odds with the advice to be frugal. It's not that you can't do both, it's that you have to strike a balance because they are in many ways at the opposite ends of a spectrum.

1: http://www.paulgraham.com/growth.html

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Re:Why to Start a Startup in a Bad Economy (2008) by throwaway29812 on Wednesday January 18, 2023 @04:07PM (#34433083)
Right, and most often that growth is tied to a digital product that can scale to infinity with little additional capital needed.
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