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The Startup Myth

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Re: The Startup Myth

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... get a billion or die trying! I don't buy the "create big companies to create many jobs" mantra. A one man company creates one job, and leaves one more job available in the market for someone else. That's a contribution in my book.

The job market is hardly a zero-sum game, though. By growing from a startup to a major player in an industry you helped found, you can do a lot more economic good than you would by creating one job and leaving one available in the existing market.

Re: The Startup Myth

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>"The world would be a much better place if less people tried to build startups."

fewer people

I really don't want to be a grammar nazi, but starting off with an error in the very first sentence made me less interested in reading the rest of the article.

Yes, I realize that English grammar is changing, that countable/uncountable distinctions are less important than they used to be, and that "less + a countable noun" doesn't sound bad to everyone anymore. But to some of us, it looks like it was written by a struggling high school student. There are so, so many things to read on the internet that readers can be driven off by minor blemishes at the beginning of a piece.

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