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Re:The Dark Side of Entrepreneurship by cmos on Wednesday July 08, 2009 @08:43PM (#694973)
Chances are you won't make _this_ mistake, but if your company gets off the ground, you'll make a couple of big mistakes that lose you customers, cash and pride.

And you'll look back on those mistakes and wonder to yourself, much like the hero of this story, how could I have let this have happen?

It's embarrassing and humbling, even more so when it's written up in the New York Times.

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Re:The Dark Side of Entrepreneurship by nostrademons on Wednesday July 08, 2009 @10:04PM (#695069)
Yeah - my experience is that most startups (including my own) really do fail because of the founder's stupidity, but it's very hard to avoid that stupidity even if you know this. There're so many balls you have to keep in the air as a founder, you're bound to drop some of them. It's only after you've practiced through a few failures and can instinctively avoid some of the more obvious failure modes that you start having a reasonable chance of success.
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