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I work for the Internet, at @stripe, mostly on accelerating startups. Opinions here are my own.

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    1. Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 5 Feb 2018
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      I hum a few variations on this theme a lot: Ask yourself "Who do you want to spend the next 10 years serving?" I find that that way of asking is more clarifying than asking about e.g. what market should I enter, what company should I work for, what role should I apply to, etc.

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    2. Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 5 Feb 2018
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      There are almost no wrong answers to this question! But if your answer feels like the wrong answer to you, that's more than a bit of warning. Hat tip to @peldi , who attempted to bring me to my senses before a company by saying "Do you really want to work for dentist offices?"

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    3. Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 5 Feb 2018
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      I said, pretty close to the exact wording, "Oh of course not but it's a great business." If the words "Do you want to work for X?" cause you to snap think "OH OF COURSE NOT" then maaaaaaybe be smarter than me.

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      Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 5 Feb 2018
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      10 years isn't an accident because it's a *long* time (doing almost anything worth doing is going to require you to cash in some of your limited supply of year tickets) but it isn't *a lifelong commitment.* (Think *much* more carefully about those than you would about career.)

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        1. Paul Delhanty‏ @delhanty 6 Feb 2018
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          Right! That's a caveat to your previous (well-founded) advice to prefer a SaaS to writing a video game. [0] Do a SaaS, but be aware that you will have to stick at it 10 years, so choose a SaaS that you can stomach. [0]https://twitter.com/patio11/status/933606709464985600 …

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          Quick little tweetstorm on why, if you desire to have a small software business, you should prefer doing Boring Business Productivity SaaS to writing a video game, even if you really like videogames:
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        2. Patrick White‏ @noself86 6 Feb 2018
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          Pretty sure it was https://www.appointmentreminder.org  (now sold.)

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        1. TProphet‏ @TProphet 5 Feb 2018
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          Apart from the business we were trying to get into with my last startup being built on wrong assumptions, we really didn't like the business either. I'm not happy it failed, but not sure I'd have been happy if it had succeeded either.

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