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Re:In Response to Paul Graham's "Startup = Growth" by batista on Monday September 24, 2012 @06:58PM (#4567521)
>Well, I think most refutations to PG's essay are based on an assumption: "Focusing on growth leads to being evil". It is probably due to too many negative stories in media about cheaters. But as we all know, cheaters can not sustain their own games forever due to the cheats violate some underlying fundamentals.

The idea behind startups is that they don't have to "sustain their own games forever", just until they get bought...

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Re:In Response to Paul Graham's "Startup = Growth" by eugenejen on Monday September 24, 2012 @09:24PM (#4568024)
But founders would never know when the startup will be bought, right? Probably it is better to hack ways out of the jungle and prepare to die in the way.

To be bought also requires luck and timing.

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