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Ideally vs actually? On average vs most productive founders?

Do you have any examples?

There was a book written to answer this exact question by psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi. It's titled "Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience"

How much do you have in savings? 5 figures, 6 figures?

How do I determine how many employees I should hire for my startup throughout its lifecycle?

There are additional risks with hiring more people... you need to find stuff for them to do, and you end up building things that aren't valuable. At worst, you make the product wor…

I'm puzzled as to how startups grow to so many employees. For example, dropbox's core product hasn't changed much from inception. Why not hire a small core team of 10 engineers and…

Don't businesses use wikis?

I'm interested in starting a hosted wiki business, is this a viable market to be in? Any advice to someone who hasn't created a SaaS business before?

For me, I need either socket support or go support.

I would argue they were not moving slowly, but in the wrong direction.

Conventional startup advice is to 'move fast' and 'pump out features.' Are there any startups that created a great new thing that was growing and then failed because they were impr…

As users are editing a doc, do you send diffs? What diff algorithm do you use? What's your logic like for merging changes and handling conflicts?