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by hawkice 4293 days ago
Or, my favorites:

* Have CEO live in another state, but not let his absenteeism stop him from insisting the entire company change

* Throw chairs at people who want to release the code after it's feature complete [Ah, TJ, I wanted to give you a big ol' bear hug for finally pressing the point after hitting feature complete more than 10 times and us never releasing]

* Be constantly high on amphetamines

* Steal the identity of a math textbook author in suburban California

* Announce in a quarterly all hands meeting that it was a positive quarter because, even though the business lost money, and lost money faster than last year, the negative year over year growth got smaller (read: closer to zero), so you'll be losing the same amount of money YoY in no time!

If you guys think it's a harsh reality that companies do the stuff in this article... I guess I am curious if you guys have worked at venture funded startups?

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> If you guys think it's a harsh reality that companies do the stuff in this article... I guess I am curious if you guys have worked at venture funded startups?

I've worked at three including one medium sized exit and never experienced what's in the article or your post.

Congratulations! :) Startups are more fun without these things (I think that's the implication of the article as well).