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by naeem 5141 days ago
He brings up some good points, but what does this have to do with anything? Obviously the default state of a startup is failure... what do his preceding two paragraphs have to do with anything? I guess I just don't quite understand the point of this article.

If it's just a PSA about the fact that startups are hard work, I'm not sure what new information it is we're getting here or why this post is being upvoted to be honest.

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"I'm not sure what new information it is we're getting here or why this post is being upvoted to be honest."

What makes something insightful isn't whether it has new information, but whether that information is connected in a new way. This qualifies because he's done a good job expressing the connection between a couple different ideas that are very important in their own right but that one wouldn't necessarily think of as being connected. (Think Euler's identity.) Granted other people have made this connection before, but what makes this a great post is that he's done it in a very simple and easy to remember way, one that provides a solid foundation for slotting other ideas into also.

hehe, Chris Dixon is right... but all this talk about stuff being hard is cheap! It's hard, hard, hard... I get the point! Now come and help execute something for me, so it becomes less hard! You telling me it's hard is just making me stress out more.