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Most of your examples have raised large amounts of VC funding. It's debatable whether they "need" the funding to success, but they certainly wanted it enough to eat the dilution.

The $1.2M revenue number looks completely made up by the article submitter. The article makes no mention of this or any other specific monthly revenue number. I would expect a serv…

Path's failure is a fitting reminder of the likely outcome of making your key metrics friendships and moments rather than revenue. No doubt this is just one of many overfunded soci…

Isn't the one job of a startup CEO to keep customers happy? Pandering to VCs to the detriment of customers seems like a surefire can't miss recipe for failure. Compare the biggest …

This seems like it could be a real business with a lot of traction, especially with the death of Rapportive. I wonder why the founders chose to throw it away and get jobs at Linked…

How do you measure founder quality? Most startups have some amount of traction when they raise VC funding. Either hundreds of thousands of users or $1M or more in revenue, especial…

The post makes some valid points, but this reads more like self promotion "content marketing" for her expensive make money online by bootstrapping course than an objective analysis…

Most likely $0. If you don't have any traction or investors, what makes you an attractive acquihire target? If it were so easy to throw together a few friends and make a million do…

Welcome to the unfortunate reality of most internet businesses. The default outcome of a lifestyle business is a lot closer to this than a patio11 style runaway success. The lifest…

Why do you think CryptoSeal failed? What are some lessons learned from running a YC startup for the past 3 years? It would be very interesting to see a postmortem.

One can't help but question the wisdom of hiring multiple sales people to sell merchants on accepting a method of payment that has no users.

It's not an entirely unreasonable heuristic. The supply of startup pitches is vastly greater than the demand for them. Investors have to filter somehow. Getting a first meeting wit…

You're making a very bold claim that being born into wealth and connections is a prerequisite for VC funding. Do you have any hard evidence to back this up? Please don't take this …

Is there anything that is not somehow VC-istan's fault?

Most businesses fail because they run out of money. Do you think getting an infusion of millions of dollars makes a business more likely to fail?

Isn't the entire premise of venture capital that you only make money off the big winners? Assuming lifestyle businesses fail at similar rates as venture-backed companies, the way t…

I think you should definitely consider doing this sooner rather than later. From reading your comments, it looks like you make the claim that: 1. Most startups are horribly mismana…

Serious question: Why aren't you building a startup right now? You have all of these theories about how a company should be run, you hate managers, you're a top .0001% programmer, …