Most business advice ostensibly directed to startups is not applicable to companies truly starting up. “Start up” has come to mean a company that has already achieved a certain size and degree of success.
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“I work at a startup that’s been around for five years.” No you don’t. After five years you’re not still starting up. You may be growing, figuring this out, but you started five years ago.
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Replying to @JohnDCook
In early 2000, people I met socially often asked me, in a somewhat cynical and bored tone, “oh, are you starting a company?” Because everyone in San Francisco was claiming to be. “No, I’m finishing one,” I’d say, and they’d be baffled. Sold in May 2000.
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Replying to @Meaningness @JohnDCook
Did dot com crash adversely affect your end of the deal?
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Replying to @ifIknewIdtellya @JohnDCook
Just barely in time that the answer is no!
11:06 AM - 23 Apr 2019
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