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Re:What I Wish I Had Known Before Selling to Google by tptacek on Saturday January 25, 2014 @06:04PM (#7122941)
I'm sure I have, somewhere in the 422482 comments I've written on HN. Candidly: operating a startup has many times been a drag on my family, but only when I was Doing It Wrong. The biggest myth in startups is that you have to live and breathe them to make them work. That's bullshit. Lots of people live and breathe stupid companies that come to nothing, and lots of people do a disciplined 9-5 that gets more done in 8 hours than the founder who lives at his desk gets done in a week.

It helps not to look at it as a game. Matasano is a business, growing steadily, with a serious team and serious management. It isn't something that might pivot after some networking meetup thingy tomorrow, or if Facebook buys the wrong company next week.

I'd read a lot of 'patio11 if you're interested in this stuff too.

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Re:What I Wish I Had Known Before Selling to Google by e12e on Saturday January 25, 2014 @11:22PM (#7123873)
Hah, I'm glad you dropped the Matasano name in there, I didn't realize you where the one replying "upstream". Another plus for Matasano in my book -- I generally thought all you guys where typical SV over-performers without family, friends and other things to create "drag" on your business ;-)
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