Defining the Real Startup as one that has hockey-stick growth out the gate, raises lots of money, forces people to work 80-100h weeks is the same gate-keeping bullshit that casts ideal founders as 20-something white hoodie nerds or Real Programmers as CS grads.
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Replying to @dhh
An alternative take is that "startups" are exactly this (crazy, fast, broken), and what you have created in Basecamp is instead a Small Business - something sane and sustainable. I've started to find that distinction useful.
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